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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

PAGE 

Anniversaries 4 

Historical Sketch of the Hawaiian Society 5 

OiScers of the National Society 37 

Constitution and By-Laws of the National Society 37 

Officers of the Hawaiian Society 48 

Constitution and By-Laws of the Hawaiian Society 48 

List of Past Officers of the Hawaiian Society 51 

Ancestral Eecords of Members 52 

List of Members 80 

Index of Ancestors 82 

List of Officers and Members of Aloha Chapter, Daughters of the 

American Eevolution 83 



ANNIVERSARIES. 

The following are the days, among others, which we celebrate 

February 22 — Birth of Washington. 

May 10, 1775 — Surrender of Ticonderoga. 

June 14, 1777 — Adoption American Flag. 

June 17, 1775 — Battle Bunker Hill. 

June 17, 189.5 — Founding of the Hawaiian Society. 

June 28, 1776— Fort Moultrie. 

July 4, 1776 — Declaration of Independence. 

August 16, 1777 — Battle of Bennington. 

October 7, 1780 — Battle of King's Mountain. 

October 17, 1777 — Surrender of Burgoyne. 

October 19, 1774 — Annapolis Tea Party. 

October 19, 1781 — Surrender of Lord Cornwallis. 

November 25, 1783 — Evacuation of New York. 

December 16, 1773 — Boston Tea Party. 

December 26, 1776— Battle of Trenton. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE HAWAIIAN SOCIETY OF 
THE SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



The Hawaiian Society of the Sons of the American Eevolution was or- 
ganized June 17, 1895, on the anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, 
with only eighteen members. A constitution based upon that of the Massa- 
chusetts State Society was adopted, and the following officers chosen: 
Peter Cushman Jones, president; Albert Francis Judd, vice-president; John 
Effinger, secretary; William DeWitt Alexander, registrar; William Joseph 
Forbes, treasurer; board of managers, Rev. Douglas Putnam Birnie, John 
Walter Jones and Henry Weld Severance. 

The annual business meetings of the Society have ever since been held 
on the 17th of June. 

Since the organization of the Hawaiian Society there have been many 
celebrations of anniversaries of Eevolutionary historical events. Some of 
the accounts of these celebrations have been taken from the minutes of the 
Society and others gathered from the files of the Pacific Commercial Adver- 
tiser, which, together with other Honolulu papers, has given prominent place 
in its columns concerning all the j^atriotic work of the Hawaiian Society. 
***** 

The one hundred and twenty-first anniversary of the Battle of Lexington 
was celebrated (April 19, 1896) at the home of Chief Justice Albert 
Francis Judd. After an invocation by Rev. Douglas P. Birnie, Hon. Peter 
Cushman Jones, president of the Society, delivered an address upon the 
significance of the day in which the patriotic sires of those present had 
made the stand against the troops of King George. Hon. Albert Francis 
Judd, vice-president, was the next speaker, followed by Mrs. W. W. Hall's 
rendition of Longfellow 's poem, ' ' Paul Revere 's Ride, ' ' which was greeted 
with applause. Mrs. Henry Castle then spoke interestingly on "Lexington 
One Hundred Years After. ' ' 

This town has been Mrs. Castle 's home, and she described the great cere- 
monies at the one hundredth anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and 
Concord when President U. S. Grant and thousands of Americans wended 
their way to this liberty spot. Though but a child at that time, Mrs. 
Castle remembered the dreary, drizzling day and the great crowds that 
thronged the village on that auspicious day. The old house in which Paul 
Revere had his interview with John Hancock and Samuel Adams was de- 
scribed, and although still inhabited was being pulled down right on the 
heads of the dwellers therein by patriotic relic hunters. Marble slabs 
mark the spots of interest around these historic towns and the annual re- 
currence of the 19th of April brings a concourse of people from all over 
the East to Concord and Lexington to view again the place where our fore- 
fathers laid down their lives for liberty. Mrs. Castle was at Lexington a 
year ago and found the place thronged on that day with sightseers. All 
through Massachusetts and in all the older States markers have been placed 
by the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution on the spots where 
great events occurred in the War of the Revolution. — Advertiser. 
***** 

The Surrender of Cornwallis was celebrated by the Society on Monday 
evening (October 19, 1896) at the Y. M. C A. building, and was attended 
by many of Honolulu 's prominent men and women. The decorations were 
handsome, the American colors predominating, with a beautiful setting of 
flowers and plants. A large map showing the location of Yorktown and 



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interesting points of strategical army movements, prepared by Compatriots 
Judd and Dickey, was conspicuously displayed. On the stage were seated 
Hon. Albert Francis Judd, then vice-president of the Society; Eev. Douglas 
P. Birnie, and Captain Nathan Appleton, the honored guest of the evening. 
After the invocation had been offered by the Eev. Mr. Birnie, Secretary 
John EflBnger called the roll, when all but eight of the members residing in 
Honolulu responded. Two letters from absent members were read, as 
follows : 

Onomea, October 12, 1896. 

Mr. John EfSnger, Secretary Hawaii Society Sons of the American Kevo- 
lution, Honolulu : 

Dear Sir and Compatriot: — Thanks for card of invitation to Cornwallis 
Day, but I cannot join. The last Cornwallis celebration I took part in was 
held in old Marlboro, about sixty years since. It used to be a quasi-holiday 
in our part of Massachusetts. Colonel Wood of our town, as colonel of the 
militia in that vicinity, as of right, represented Washington (and perhaps 
Lafayette). His command was made up of the Marlboro Eifles (a crack 
volunteer company), the Marlboro Militia Company, Sudbury Eifles, Stow, 
Acton, Concord, and other companies of that vicinity. The invading British 
were a scrub set from other neighboring towns. As a boy, of course my 
special attraction and admiration were our ' ' Old Continentals ' ' — com- 
panies with no uniforms but in old clothes of '76, with queues and two 
wigs, flat hats, powder horns and old muskets, and a band of painted In- 
dians with bows, arrows and tomahawks. The enemy were driven into a 
fort on rising ground, and by skillful generalship we took their works. 
O, it was a glorious day! My grandfather's musket was in the action, 
but I am sorry to say it is no longer in evidence. Asa G. Thurston and I 
wished to celebrate one Fourth of July. We took the barrel from the 
stock, loaded it with plenty of powder, put in a long piece of iron that 
fitted the bore, fixed and chained it to a heavy "A" harrow, laid a long 
slow match, which we fired, and then prudently retired behind the barn. 
From our standpoint our plans had proved a success. The harrow was 
not injured, the slug went through the side of the mill house, to be sure, 
but did not pass through the head of a large cask of vinegar in which it 
was imbedded; but only fragments of the old Continental remained. When 
called to account the next day at headquarters, our only defense and miti- 
gating plea was : ' ' But we are here, unharmed, and the old scrimshoned 
powder horn is safe. ' ' We hadn 't relics enough in the garret to go 'round, 
but one at a time we could equip ourselves in cocked hat, canteen, sword 
and powder horn and conquer Indians, British or any other invading foes. 
From a hill on the farm we could look over into Concord, Acton, and Lex- 
ington, and "almost discover" Bunker Hill, and shout to our ancestors — 

' ' Stand, the ground 's your own, my braves — 
Will you give it up to slaves? 
Will you look for greener graves'? 

Hope you mercy still? 
What's the mercy despots feel? 
Eead it in yon battle 's peal, ' ' etc., etc. 

The story of how they heard us, and thought of us and "stood their 
ground" for us through those long, dreary years will never grow old, and 
we do well to renew their memory. I can scarcely account for my troubling 
a stranger with all this tiresome yarn, but doubtless a Compatriot will 
forgive. Yours sincerely and truly, 

Warren Goodale. 



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HiLO, October 15, 1896. 
Mr. John Effinger, Secretary: 

Dear Comrade: — The notice of the reunion of the S. A. E. has been duly- 
received. Many thanks. I sincerely regret my inability to attend. Hilo 
Sons are unfortunately cut off from enjoying these pleasant reunions, but 
we are with you in spirit, and would greatly enjoy being there in body to 
participate in the celebration. Very truly yours, 

L. Severance. 

Hon. Albert Francis Judd was the first speaker of the evening and read 
the following interesting paper: 

' ' Ladies and Gentlemen, and Comrades of the Sons of the American 
Eevolution: — The objects of this Society will be more fully enlarged upon 
by the principal speaker of the evening, who will follow me. The Hawaiian 
Society cannot, as its sister chapters in the United States do, erect monu- 
ments commemorative of the events of the War of Independence of the 
American colonists, being in a foreign land; so it has, besides the general 
objects of the Association, the special one of promoting a knowledge of 
American history among the young of these Islands. It is gratifying to 
notice so many young persons present here tonight. History is a noble 
study — interesting to all classes, and is becoming more and more an essen- 
tial part of a liberal education. The first gun of the Eevolution was fired 
at Lexington, Mass., on the 19th of April, 1775, the anniversary of which 
event this Society duly celebrated. Without attempting to sketch the in- 
tervening events, the various campaigns and battles, which were conducted 
with varying success on either side, the epoch culminating in the American 
victory at Yorktown, Virginia, celebrated tonight, begins in 1780, nearly 
six years after Lexington and Concord. 

Benedict Arnold's treachery, by which he had planned to deliver West 
Point, and as a corollary the whole Hudson river, to Sir Henry Clinton, the 
British commander, had been exposed by a timely capture of Major Andre 
and the discovery of the papers of the plot on his person. This was in 
October, 1780. In May of the same year General Lincoln had allowed him- 
self to be cooped up in Charleston, S. C, and after a siege of two months 
had surrendered with his whole army. At Camden, S. C, Lord Cornwallis 
had defeated General Gates, thus annihilating for the second time in three 
months the American army at the South. The historian, John Fiske, says 
this was the darkest period of the war. Count Eochambeau, the French 
ally, with six thousand men, was blockaded and hemmed in on Ehode Island 
by the British fleet and troops. The value of the Continental money, being 
irredeemable paper, had fallen to about zero. It had taken $150 to buy 
a bushel of corn, and $2,000 for a suit of clothes, and now the people re- 
fused to take the Continental money at all, and resorted to barter. The 
Articles of Confederation between the thirteen States had not been ratified, 
and the only way that the Continental Congress could get either money or 
soldiers was by asking the States to furnish them. Great Britain was at 
war with France, Spain, Holland and the American Colonies. She had 
her hands full. This would account for the weakness with which the war 
was conducted on both sides. The British plan of campaign at this time 
was to first reduce all the States south of the Susquehanna river to subjec- 
tion, and in fulfillment of this design Cornwallis had started south. His 
road was inland, away from the supplies which the British fleet could fur- 
nish him. At "King's Mountain," the backwoodsmen from Kentucky, Ten- 
nessee, the Carolinas and West Virginia, under partisan leaders, defeated 
Ferguson, killing and wounding four hundred and taking seven hundred 
prisoners — all that were left — losing themselves only twenty-eight killed 
and sixty wounded. The British army was in a territory where the inhabi- 



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tants were unfriendly. This victory was the first gleaming forth of the 
silver lining of the dark cloud. Hearing of this disaster, Cornwallis fell 
back to Winnsborough, S. C, and sent for reinforcements. 

General Greene, second only to Washington as a tactician, took command 
of the army operating here, succeeding General Gates, who was a failure. 
His army was of only two thousand men. Baron Steuben was recruiting in 
Virginia. Leslie, and after him Arnold, operated against him with British 
troops sent from New York. General Greene divided his army into two 
forces. Marion, the ' ' Swamp Fox, ' ' with his squirrel hunters, threatened 
Gornwallis' connection with the coast, and Dan Morgan threatened Corn- 
wallis' inland posts. Tarleton, a gallant cavalry soldier, was sent by Corn- 
wallis with one thousand one hundred men to wipe out Morgan; but this 
was too large a contract for him, and they met at ' ' Cowpens, ' ' South 
Carolina, January 17, 1781, when with only nine hundred men Morgan sur- 
rounded Tarleton and killed and wounded two hundred and thirty and took 
six hundred prisoners and all their guns. Tarleton escaped with only two 
hundred and seventy men. The American loss was only twelve killed and 
sixty-one wounded. By most skillful strategy, Greene moved the two parts 
of his army northward in converging lines until they met at Guilford Court 
House. Here a battle took place March 15, 1781, and Cornwallis, though 
he had the nominal victory, holding the field and repulsing the Americans, 
lost nearly one-third of his troops and had to retreat to Wilmington, and 
finally moved back to Virginia, arriving at Petersburg on May 20. Greene, 
following his victorious enemy according to his usual custom, pursued Corn- 
wallis for fifty miles, then faced about and marched one hundred and fifty 
miles to Camden and recaptured it, and having reduced all the inland 
posts, finally met the enemy in the obstinate battle of Eutaw Springs on 
September 8th, both sides claiming the victory. This part of the British 
forces then stayed in Charleston under the protection of their fleet. 

Cornwallis meanwhile had five thousand men at Petersburg, and Benedict 
Arnold was recalled to New York. Lafayette was at Kichmond with three 
thousand men. In a nine weeks campaign Cornwallis vainly endeavored to 
force Lafayette to a battle, and finally Lafayette, reinforced by Steuben 
and Wayne, pursued Cornwallis to the coast, where in July he found him- 
self at Yorktown with eight thousand men. 

What was Washington doing? He planned with remarkable generalship 
and with equally remarkable celerity and secrecy executed the movement 
which led to the destruction of Cornwallis and virtually closed the war. 
Knowing that an immense French fleet under Count de Grasse was approach- 
ing Chesapeake Bay, Washington moved Rochambeau from Rhode Island 
across Connecticut to the Hudson river, left a small force there and then 
started with Rochambeau on his superb march to Virginia after Cornwallis. 
Sir Henry Clinton supposed that the French fleet was bound to New York 
and that Washington had started to meet it at Staten Island, and it was 
not until Washington had passed Philadelphia that it dawned upon Sir 
Henry that Washington might be bound for Virginia. It was too late to 
retrieve the error, and the attempted diversion made by Benedict Arnold 
at New London was both cruel and futile. On September 26th Washington 
joined with Lafayette, and with sixteen thousand men, of whom seven 
thousand were Frenchmen, "bottled up" Cornwallis on the peninsula of 
Yorktown. 

We turn now to the French fleet. It was in two divisions, one under de 
Barras of eight ships of the line and eighteen transports with three thou- 
sand five hundred men and a train of heavy artillery. It sailed from New- 
port, R. I., in August for the Chesapeake, making a wide detour to avoid 
Hood, the British admiral, and his fleet. De Grasse had raised money at 
Havana for the Americans, who were, as we have seen, in sore need, and 
sailed with twenty-eight ships of the line through the Bahamas and an- 



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chored just outside the capes of the Chesapeake. Hood had looked into 
the Chesapeake just before this, and not finding the French fleet there, sailed 
on to New York and joined Admiral Graves, who took command, being the 
senior admiral, and the fleet, now of nineteen line of battleships, went back 
to the Chesapeake. De Grasse went out to meet Graves. The English with 
nineteen ships attacked the French, who had twenty-four. They maneuv- 
ered and fought some, but no decided advantage was gained by either side. 
Before de Barras had slipped in and landed the siege artillery and troops. 
Graves, finding the situation hopeless, sailed back to New York, and de 
Grasse anchored and blocked the James and York rivers, thus making an 
effectual blockade of Cornwallis on the seaside. Now about the siege. 
Cornwallis had fortified the town with seven redoubts and six batteries 
on the land side and a line of batteries along the river. Gloucester Point, 
on the opposite side of the York river, was also fortified, and in the river 
were a number of British vessels. The allied forces drew their parallels, the 
French given the post of honor at the front. The batteries opened on 
the 9th of October, 1781. On the 11th the second parallel was only three 
hundred yards from the forts. The l-lth witnessed an assault, when the 
French and Americans each ca^^tured a redoubt. The Americans were led 
by Alexander Hamilton. Lafayette had a command in the American army. 
The cannonade continued. By the 16th the British fortifications were al- 
most destroyed and most of their guns dismounted. An attemjjted escape 
by the British by night to Gloucester Point was defeated by a storm, which 
destroyed their boats. On the 19th of October, the day we this evening 
celebrate. Lord Cornwallis surrendered. The allied armies were drawn up 
in two lines, the French headed by Eochambeau on one side and the Ameri- 
cans headed by Washington on the other, and the British troops marched 
out between the two and laid down their arms, Washington forbidding any 
huzzas and saying that history would do the huzzaing. To the French 
were surrendered the two British frigates and twenty transports that re- 
mained. To the Americans were surrendered seven thousand prisoners (two 
thousand of which were wounded), two hundred and thirty-five pieces of 
cannon, eight thousand stand of arms, twenty-eight regimental colors. The 
British loss was five hundred and fifty and the allies three hundred. 

It is said that the humiliation to Lord Cornwallis was so great that he 
remained in his house and sent his sword to Washington by the hand of 
General O 'Hara. Washington offered it to General Lincoln to alleviate his 
mortification on surrendering at Charleston. Another tradition is that 
Washington offered the sword to Lafayette, who declined it. The excite- 
ment in the colonies was intense. The news spread from town to town and 
State to State. Church bells were rung, and the cry swept along to Phila- 
delphia, ' ' Cornwallis is taken. ' ' A general day of thanksgiving was 
ordered by Congress and solemnly observed. More excitement even was 
occasioned in London, and Parliament Hall echoed with the speeches of 
Burke, Fox and Pitt, denouncing the continuance of the war. 

Charles Cornwallis was educated at Eton and Cambridge, had served as 
aid-de-camp of the Marquis of Granby in the seven years' war, and was 
governor of the town of London. He was personally opposed to the war 
in America, as were many prominent men in England, but went with his 
command, as ordered, to America, where he gained a good many victories, 
until his final defeat, for which, as it seems to me, Sir Henry Clinton was 
responsible. As we all know, the capitulation at Yorktown was decisive. 
The British and Americans rarely clashed arms thereafter. Lord North 's 
ministry resigned the next year. 1782 a treaty of peace was made by Lord 
Selborne's ministry and signed by the Coalition in 1783. After many suc- 
cessive ministries in England William Pitt finally, in 1784, obtained a com- 
plete victory over King George Ill's party, and his cherished plans against 
the American colonies were overthrown. Cabinet or parliamentary govern- 



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ment was firmly established in Great Britain. Lord Cornwallis had quite a 
brilliant career after his return to England. He became governor-general 
of India, was raised to the Marquisate on his return from India, was ap- 
pointed lord-lieutenant of Ireland, put down the rebellion there of 1798, 
and gained, strange to say, the good will of the Irish people. He was again 
appointed governor-general of India and died there in 1805. History 
awards him the qualities of uprightness, diligence and a humane disposition. 

I have touched but lightly upon the great value of the French alliance 
to the struggling colonies and the brilliant services of Eoehambeau, de 
Grasse and Lafayette — these will be enlarged upon by the speaker who 
follows me. I do not speak either of the character and generalship of 
the matchless Washington, leaving that to the next reunion of our Society, 
when on the anniversary of his birth we may join with seventy millions of 
Americans in celebrating his heroic deeds. ' ' 

Miss Lawrence read in a most charming manner James Eussell Lowell's 
' ' Commemoration Ode. ' ' Vice-President Judd then introduced Captain 
Nathan Appleton, vice-president of the Massachusetts Society of the Sons 
of the American Revolution. 

Captain Appleton, in commencing his address, said that he was one of 
the three vice-presidents of the Massachusetts Society, the others being 
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge and Mr. Foster, who is now dead, and whose 
place would in all probability be filled at the meeting of the Society held 
today in Boston. Organizations of the character of the Sons of the 
American Revolution are of recent growth. It seems strange, but the first 
organization was in California in 1875, and was called the Sons of Revo- 
lutionary Sires. This is considered the pioneer branch of the Society. 
Afterward, when other societies had been formed and called themselves the 
Sons of the American Revolution, the California Society had adopted that 
as their name also. 

* ' I can, ' ' said he, ' ' see California beckoning to the Society here to come 
over and form one of the constellation of stars that are throughout the 
United States. ' ' 

In February, 1893, he attended a meeting in New York City of all the 
societies of like character to this to form a union society. But it was a 
failure, and now he was glad of it. Why? Because in that Revolution we 
gained our independence, and it will always be known as the American 
Revolution. The Sons of the American Revolution is the name, and will 
always be the name in the future. 

In 1520 the French General Champlain and others took from us Louisiana 
and other parts of the country; these same persons in later years helped 
us to regain the land from the English. The Society has for its emblem 
or insignia the cross of St. Louis, an order of French kings and nobility, 
whose last president, Louis XVI., allowed Lafayette to come over to America. 
Nothing more appropriate could have been chosen. On one side is the 
head of Washington, on the reverse a minute-man. 

Mr. Reed was the first man to conceive the idea of marking the graves 
of the persons who were in the Revolution. The marker is made of iron or 
bronze and is placed on the grave. The cross has on it "1775" and a 
figure of a minute-man. Very few of the graves were known, and when 
these markers were produced many persons interested themselves to find 
out the graves, and in this way names were found on the tombs which were 
fast going to decay, and were preserved for the Society. Fast day has also 
been changed to Patriot's day, on April 19, and now is generally observed 
throughout the States. A great many people wonder why we citizens take 
up the matter of our ancestors. When we think of the Pilgrims, who 
dwindled away from one hundred and fifty; the Separatists, the Puritans 
and those who settled in Virginia, which was the beginning of the Great 



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Republic, which at the time of the Revolution numbered about three million, 
and now nearly seventy million, would it not be of interest and value to 
find the number of their descendants since'? It is of historical and educa- 
tional interest, and not aping Europe in pride of ancestors. Two years 
ago I was appointed to do a very graceful act in taking one of these 
markers to Lafayette 's grave. After arriving in Paris one of the first 
things I did was to make inquiries concerning the descendants of Lafayette. 
Interesting facts were found — that Lafayette had one son and three daugh- 
ters. The son had two daughters, who both were unmarried, leaving no 
heirs who could bear the name of Lafayette. The daughters of Lafayette 
have about forty decendants, and the French government authorized that 
two of the male descendants should be called Lafayette. The cemetery 
where Lafayette was buried is a most interesting spot. There are about 
twenty tomljs of the great French nobility in this Ipt, and in an adjoining 
lot are the graves of three thousand Frenchmen who sacrificed their lives 
in an attempt to follow Lafayette's efforts. It seems almost an irony of 
fate that these two lots should be so placed. We have never made any ade- 
quate return to France for what she had done for us in our trying times. 
A few avenues and buildings have been named after Lafayette, and re- 
cently a statue of him has been erected in New York City, but the debt 
still remains unpaid. Out of sixteen thousand men engaged in the battle 
at Yorktown, over half of them were Frenchmen. These men returned to 
France and reported on their endeavors to found a new republic across the 
ocean. People were aroused, and it was the first rebound of the ball which 
started the French Revolution and gave to France and her people their 
rights. Since 1870 the French Republic has stood, and on this day it is 
most appropriate that we should recognize what France has done for the 
United States. In closing. Captain Appleton said: "I am glad to be here 
tonight and to extend to this branch in the newest Republic the fraternal 
greetings of the Massachusetts Society. ' ' 

Hon. A. F. Judd then moved that a vote of thanks be extended to Cap- 
tain Appleton for his most entertaining talk, and that he be authorized to 
carry the greetings of the Honolulu Society to her sister, the Massachu- 
setts Society. It was carried by a standing vote. 

Miss Grace Richards then sang the verses of the Star Spangled Banner, 
the audience joining in the chorus. Refreshments were served to the mem- 
bers and their friends. 

***** 

Washington's Birthday (1897) was celebrated by the Society at the 
home of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Cushman Jones, there being a large attend- 
ance of the members and invited guests. The evening 's program consisted 
of addresses by President P. C. Jones, Vice-President A. F. Judd, Rev. 
Sereno E. Bishop and Sidney M. Ballon; rendition of patriotic selections by 
Miss Parmalee and the reading of Lowell's ode to Washington by Misa 
Agnes Judd. 

The early part of the evening the members of the Society were highly 
gratified to have an opportunity to exchange greetings with Compariot 
vV^arren Goodale, who has for some time been a member of the Society, but 
never before present at any of its gatherings. Mr. Goodale seemed par- 
ticularly happy in meeting old friends and was to all appearances in usual 
health. The news of his death, which occurred a few minutes after he left 
the house, immediately put an end to the social festivities of the evening. — 

Advertiser. 

***** 

The celebration of Washington's Birthday (1898) was held at the home 
of Edwin Austin Jones, the members and guests numbering about one hun- 
dred and fifty. Rev. D. P. Birnie offered prayer, after which an address 
of welcome was delivered by Compatriot Peter CusHman Jones. Prof. 



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Frank A. Hosmer, president of Oahu College, gave a review of the life of 
George Washington, making a skillful analysis of the great patriot who, 
boy and man, soldier and statesman, had shown true greatness. Miss Cart- 
wright gave a splendid rendition of ' ' Spirit of '76, ' ' the story being most 
beautifully and effectively told. Patriotic selections were given by a quar- 
tette under the leadership of Prof. Theodore Eichards. Mrs. E. F. Wood- 
ward sang the ' ' Star Spangled Banner ' ' with excellent effect, the audience 
joining in the chorus. 

In presenting the American representative (Mr. Sewall) there was refer- 
ence by Mr. Jones to the three Ministers of Hawaii all coming from the 
State of Maine — Luther Severance, John L. Stevens, and Harold M. Sewall. 
Mr. Jones thought that Maine, for the good quality of her sons, owed 
something to her mother State — Massachusetts. 

American Minister Sewall made a stirring address. He paid glowing 
tribute to Washington and to the memory of the first President, and from 
the life of Washington drew lessons applying to the duties of Americans 
of the present day. Mr. Sewall said that some people frequently referred 
to the declaration of Washington concerning ' ' entangling alliances. ' ' The 
speaker thought that were Washington a figure of this day he would be in 
favor of territorial expansion. When Mr. Sewall strikes the topic of 
Americanism his tones are ringing, and yesterday was no exeejjtion to his 
habit in these premises. The formal program closed with the singing of 
' ' America. ' ' Eef reshments were then served in the large dining room 
under the direction of Mrs. P. C. Jones, who had secured as helpers young 
ladies from Kawaiahao Seminary. — Advertiser. 

* * * * * 

The Society of the Sons of the American Eevolution met at the residence 
of Mr. W. E. Castle on Saturday evening (February 22, 1902). The ser- 
vices began by reading a part of the Constitution of the Society. This was 
followed by a song, rendered by Mr. Arthur Wall. Mr. W. E. Castle then 
introduced Major Davis, of Camp McKinley, who spoke on the life of 
Washington. He said Washington was raised in Westmoreland County, 
Virginia, and inherited much land from his father. While studying in his 
youth he learned the principles of truth and justice, which he observed 
during his life. He always nursed the spark of fire, ' ' conscience. ' ' In 
his early youth he received an appointment in the British army. Major 
Davis detailed the incidents of his early life, and related several which 
are not commonly known. He said Washington was a millionaire, but used 
his means for the best ends. At the battle in which Braddock was defeated 
by the French and Indians, he was the only mounted officer who escaped 
slaughter. It was while in Western Pennsylvania with the British forces 
that he discovered the great value of coal and iron lands, and these he 
purchased. Major Davis briefly traced the public services of Washington, 
reviewing his character as a soldier, citizen and statesman, and again stated 
that which is believed by many, that it was the singular prudence, wisdom 
and skill of Washington which insured the success of the Eevolution. 

After a song by Mrs. C. B. Cooper, Mr. W. N. Armstrong s^^oke on the 
Scotch-Irish of America and their large contribution to the success of 
Washington's armies. He said it was about time the Scotch-Irish had some 
innings in history. The Anglo-Saxons have had it their own way, so far; 
had claimed everything. We constantly hear of the civilization of the 
Anglo-Saxon, but little is said of that important body of Scotch-Irish, who 
are also foremost in movements of civilization in America. This race 
were the Celts, who had emigrated from Ireland to Scotland in the fourth 
century, had mixed with the native Caledonians, and with some of the Eng- 
lish. In the seventeenth century, owing to religious jjersecution, they began 
to emigrate to Ireland, and made Ulster county famous for its thrift. 



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When persecuted in religious matters, they emigrated to A.merica, landing 
mainly in Philadelphia. They spread out into the rich valleys of Pennsyl- 
vania, swarmed up the Shenandoah valley of Virginia, crossed the moun- 
tains into Tennessee and Kentucky, made the backbone of those States, and 
moved south into Carolinas. The bloody battle of Culloden, which defeated 
the * ' Pretender, ' ' caused such vengance and persecution of the Scotch clans 
that in one year over thirty thousand of them left for Ireland and America. 
The pure Gaelic language was even spoken by the negro slaves of the Scot- 
tisu immigrants. In the Revolutionary War the Scotch-Irish alone nearly 
won the battle of King's Mountain in North Carolina. Though clearly a 
different type from the Anglo-Saxons, these Scotch-Irish made themselves 
strongly felt in the highest stations. Of the Presidents, Jefferson, Madison, 
Monroe, Jackson, Taylor, Polk and Johnson were Scotch-Irish. Of the 
great jurists, Chief Justice Marshall and Associate Justice Campbell were 
of this race. The great generals, Lee, Jackson, the Johnsons, Stuart and 
Grant, also Sam Houston, were of this extraordinary race. Of the signers 
of the Declaration of Independence, fourteen were Scotch-Irish. Wither- 
spoon, whose eloquence roused the aoubtful members to sign the declaration, 
was one of them. The Anglo-Saxon and the Scotch-Irish moved forward 
on parallel lines, but the Anglo-Saxon was, perhaps, getting too much of 
the glory of movement. This was not fair. The Scotch-Irish were too 
modest. The facts presented showed the value of their service in building 
up the nation. — Advertiser. 

* « * « » 

To honor the memory of George Washington, an audience which filled 
Central Union Church beyond the doors of the auditorium gathered last 
evening (February 22, 1902), and song and oration were joined in the glori- 
fication of the Father of his Country. It was an audience which repre- 
sented young and old, and which drew together men and women of all 
faiths and no faith, to worship at the shrine of Country, for Washington 
and that for which he stood, furnished the themes of prayer and praise. 
The program was a varied one, embodying the set orations of Governor 
Dole and Judge Estee, choruses by the young Hawaiians of Kamehameha 
School, and a special choir of young men, a solo by Mrs. Turner and the 
full strength of the lungs of the audience in the ' ' Battle Hymn of the 
Republic" and "America." And through it all there was a stillness which 
bespoke interest and which manifested itself in applause when, with an 
apostroijhe the Governor closed his appeal for good citizenship on the model 
of the greatest of all Americans, and again as Judge Estee paid his meed 
of praise to our country. 

The audience began to gather early, and every seat withm the church was 
filled when the hour set for the service arrived. Then as the late comers 
thronged the entrance halls, chairs were brought in from the lecture room 
until the aisles held their lines of seats, and when these were taken other 
scores stood without the main room, unable to find space within below or 
above, but content to enjoy the feast. "To Thee, O Country!" was the 
opening anthem which, rendered by a male choir of a dozen voices, fixed 
the attention of the gathering upon the theme which was to be the domi- 
nant note of the evening. President C. B. Dyke, of Kamehameha Schools, 
read the 67th Psalm, and then all the young people of the two schools, to 
the number of two hundred and fifty, sang E. A. P. Newcomb's chorus 
' ' Hawaii ' ' in a manner at once impressive and excellent. After prayer 
by President A. M. Smith, the chorus sang an arrangement of ' ' Lead, 
Kindly Light," and Mrs. Turner rendered "The Holy City," which led up 
to the entire congregation singing Julia Ward Howe 's ' ' Battle Hymn of 
the Republic." The grand old chorus swelled through the auditorium, and 
its echoes had not more than died away before Governor Dole was presented 



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to make tlie first address of the eveuiug upon "Lessons from the Life of 
Washington. In part the Governor said: 

* ' When the historian comes to make up his estimate of the life of one 
whose career enters into the chronicle which he must write, he searches 
about for facts which will throw light upon the character of the man, to 
find the real man. His ancestry, his youth and his age must be traced, 
and when he has reached the stage where the history is to take him up, it 
must be learned what has been the impress which he made upon the people 
of his own country. Finally, it must be taken into account what impress 
he made upon the age in which he lived. Has his life been productive of 
fruit ; has he left an indelible impression upon his people and the world. 
'I'he character of George Washington must be studied in this way. All sen- 
timent must be brushed aside and only the truth taken from the record of 
the life of this man. We don 't know much about his childhood. It does 
not make any difference whether or not the story of the hatchet and the 
tree is true, the fact that the character of the man left this impress upon 
the people among whom he lived is of more value. The young man showed 
the character which always distinguished him, for, sent into the wilderness 
to survey lands where the men and the animals were alike ferocious, he 
bravely and well did his work, and again wuen he took an interest in mili- 
tary affairs, he was speedily found at the front, leading his men and mak- 
ing for himself the name which after led to higher places. Serving with 
tue troops of the mother country, he showed coolness in trial and bravery in 
the face of danger. When oppression was alienating the young colony from 
the mother country, although an aristocrat, he became a democrat in his 
devotion to his country and the cause of freedom. The whole world was 
in a lerment and the cry was for a leader. So when America decided to 
rebel to the young Virginian the Continental Congress turned. Men from 
all the colonies were won by this man, and when he received the unanimous 
vote he felt the responsibilities pressed upon him. He led his forces, and 
though often when the clothing was insufficient, the food poor and the arms 
and ammunition not in order, men deserted, he never lost faith. Later he 
found that calumnies were spreading about him, and he at once resigned 
his commission and returned to his farm at Mt. Vernon, perhaps the hap- 
piest man in the country, that his hopes for the nation had been realized. 
Again he was called out of retirement for the purpose of assisting in the 
formation of the Constitution, and there he showed the same devotion to 
the cause of good government and good morals. Again he was called from 
his retirement to take the Chief Magistracy of the Nation, and during 
eight difficult years he worked and struggled to adjust the relations of 
the nation. So well was his work done that even today there is much in the 
department done on the lines he laid down. In private life he was the 
typical good citizen, and he never failed to make his record accord with 
his early promise. 

' ' Today his name is a household word, not only in America, but as well 
wherever liberty is loved by a people. His Farewell Address to his people 
is a model of rules for national action, and even yet it is quoted and fol- 
lowed. He is known as ''First in War, First in Peace and First in the 
Hearts of His Countrymen. ' ' In times of war every man is stirred by the 
feeling of patriotism and he is willing to give his life. Patriotism is like 
religion. Men are ready to lay down their lives for their country. But 
in times of peace men want their time for their own uses. They want 
to get rich. There is more danger for a republic in times of peace than in 
time of war. So many men want to go to sleep. Washington held the 
trust of his countrymen, for he was alike true to his ideals in peace and 
war. He placed his duty to the State above his private aims. Washington, 
through all, had faith in God. We know that sometimes he swore, but we 
know also that he prayed. 



Sons of the American Revolution. 15 

"We are new American citizens, and there can be no better lesson for 
the youth of the country than to study the life of Washington. I wish 
the new generation of Hawaii would make his life their lesson of patriotism. 
1 cannot imagine Washington pulling wires to retain office; he took office 
from a sense of duty to his country. Such an example is an entirely 
wholesome one, and one which if lived up to must be followed by the 
greatest results. ' ' 

When the applause which had followed the words of Governor Dole had 
subsided, Judge Morris M. Estee, Federal Judge of this District, was pre- 
sented by the Governor. He said the previous speaker had covered the 
principal portion of what he had intended to say about Washington, and 
he endorsed every word of it. He then proceeded on the topic of ' ' Amer- 
ican Citizenship. ' ' Washington, he said, was the model citizen, for not 
only did he do more than any another to win the liberty of his country, but 
did more to perpetuate it, for when advised to declare himself a dictator he 
refused, and even would not run for a third time, saying the precedent 
would be a dangerous one. It is impossible to separate his name 
from the people he made free, and no greater tribute can be paid him 
than to discuss how to make better citizens. From his time until now the 
American people have been schooled in free government, and each citizen 
is equal to all other citizens. He said: 

' ' No particular birthright was necessary to make an American citizen ; 
no family name gave force to his citizenship. Our land laws were liberal, 
our fathers encouraged European immigration and the poor of the world 
got homes here. It may be true that many do not sufficiently value their 
American citizenship, but it is nevertheless a most glorious privilege to be 
a citizen of the United States. Take the people of these Islands. The 
humblest citizen living in this remote Territory is the political equal of 
any other citizen of the United States living elsewhere. The same Consti- 
tution spreads its protecting wings over all alike; your lives and property 
are protected the same as the lives and property of all other Americans. ' ' 

Judge Estee referred to the Constitution, and then went on to the growth 
of the nation, saying it was so prosperous that the people lived better than 
any other people on earth, being rather an earning than a saving popula- 
tion. No people are governed so little or so well as Americans, he said, 
and also none are so happy and so well cared for in every way, even in the 
benefits of education. Judge Estee dwelt upon the necessity for education, 
and the power it gave, and finally upon the necessity for free homes and a 
thinking labor, closing with an eloquent apostrophe to the citizen and the 
nation which rests upon him. The exercises closed with "America." — 
Advertiser. 



With the Declaration of Independence prominently displayed, the Ha- 
waiian Society of the Sons of the American Eevolution, together with the 
local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, celebrated last 
nignt (October 19, 1903) in Y. M. C. A. hall the one hundred and twenty- 
second anniversary of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown in 
1781. The historic features of that memorable event were duly presented 
by Governor Dole and Rev. W. M. Kincaid, and appropriate music was 
rendered. Governor Dole was introduced by F. J. Lowrey, chairman of the 
celebration. The Governor prefaced his remarks by telling of a school 
teacher in a generation gone by, in Honolulu, whose father had fought 
at Bunker Hill at fifteen years of age. A pupil had asked her, breathlessly, 
if her father was slain, a query which caused general laughter. The 
Governor told of the results of the surrender which laid the foundation for 
the United States to become a world power. He believed the organization 
of the Sons of the American Revolution was one to make memorable 



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American patriotism, and lie was glad to speak on that subject. He said 
that there was an objection by some people to these societies because they 
engendered the war spirit, but he did not believe this when the societies 
tempered their lessons with patriotism. Men who thought thus, influenced 
for good in every community. 

' ' This idea of patriotism of a body of men who stand between their 
country and danger is a grand and splendid subject to contemplate, ' ' said 
he. "I feel that a society of this kind may go further than that. There 
is other patriotic work for it. There is a patriotism to prevent danger from 
foreign agression which requires patriotism of a higher type. This is the 
patriotism which prevents insidious growths that deprive citizens of their 
rights. American citizens have the right to liberty and the pursuit of hap- 
piness — that is their legal right — their normal right. But are there not 
many American citizens who are without the opportunity of exercising it? 
If there is any menace to these rights the men who will develop opposition 
to this are as much entitled to praise as the men who fight on the battle- 
field. It is the province of societies like this to inculcate the idea of pa- 
triotism which will go forward to develop patriotism to protect citizens from 
invasions of any character. 

' ' If Mars should attack Earth, I am certain we would find that the 
whole population of Earth would unite in one common cause to repel Mars. 
That shows how the whole world ought to be one community, for when one 
nation suffers the others must suffer with it. 

"It is extremely rare nowadays that the great nations attack each other. 
Arbitration is rapidly developing, and this is made the basis of adjustment 
of their differences. We have heard by cable this week that England and 
tne United States had settled their Alaska boundary question. This was 
done by a body of men sitting in a room in London. It cost a few thou- 
sand dollars, but in years gone by great suffering would have been caused, 
thousands of lives sacrificed and millions of dollars spent to settle this 
question. It is a wonderful advance, and we wonder that the world did 
not think of it earlier. This national duelling is just as absurd as indi- 
vidual duelling the world over. These are the things for the Society to in- 
culcate and spread all over the world. Through the influence of the United 
States more nations have advanced along these lines, and citizenship has 
been established in many parts of Europe, and there are numbers of thrones 
of Europe being threatened. This opens up a splendid vista for a society 
of this kind to spread patriotism of the highest type. If this Society is 
going to do this kind of Avork, I should be glad to be a member of it. ' ' 

Rev. W. M. Kincaid spoke on the Ideal American. He said that in tak- 
ing any man out of history like Washington, the hero of Yorktown, who 
stands as the incarnation of all that is noble and great in history, the ideal 
American was presented. A man cannot help be otherwise if he is true to 
the principles upon which his government is founded. His opinion was that 
the ideal American represented all that is the embodiment of liberty to 
serve God and his brother at his side. The ideal American was not a myth. 
Americanism was simply law with liberty and liberty with law. Every na- 
tion has had its great national ideal. The American ideal is liberty to the 
individual man because he is a man. There had been republics before the 
fall of Yorktown consummated the American republic, but they gave liberty 
only to the few and slavery to the many. America took liberty to her 
bosom. The nation felt that liberty was not the gift of a sect, but that 
whether the State willed or not, whether the man was of the highest or the 
lowest cast, the fact that he was a man was sufficient to entitle him to the 
privileges of liberty and the privileges of citizenship. 

Mr. Lowrey announced that owing to indisposition. Judge M. M. Estee 
was unable to be present to make his address on the battle of Yorktown. 
He then read the following: 



Sons of the American Revolution. 17 

At the centennial celebration of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at 
Yorktown, October 19, 1881, the following order, written by James Gr. 
Blaine and signed by President Arthur, was read and carried out : "In 
recognition of the friendly relations so long and so happily subsisting be- 
tween Great Britain and the United States, in the trust and confidence of 
peace and good will between the two countries, for all the centuries to come, 
and in view of the profound respect felt by the American people for the 
illustrious sovereign and gracious lady who now sits upon the British throne, 
it is hereby ordered that at the close of the services commemorative of the 
valor and success of our forefathers in their patriotic struggle for inde- 
pendence, the British flag shall be saluted by the forces of the army and 
navy of the United States now at Yorktown. ' ' 

This was followed by the singing of America, and the meeting came to a 
close, to be supi^lemented by the serving of refreshments and a social half 
hour. The copy of the Declaration of Independence on view was sent to 
Mrs. W. W. Hall, Kegent of the local chapter of the Daughters of the 
American Revolution, by Mrs. Eyan of Massachusetts. In her letter she 
stated that a copy had been sent to a mountain fastness of Kentucky, 
where the mountaineers had never seen an American flag. 

The musical program was a pleasing feature of the entertainment, the 
first selection being a trio by three ladies, accompanied by violin and piano. 
Mr. Stanley Livingstone sang a solo, and a quartette composed of Mrs. 
Damon, Miss Byington, Mr. Livingstone, and Mr. R. C. Brown rendered a 
humorous selection in a pleasing manner. — Advertiser. 

***** 

A meeting of the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution was 
held last evening (August 16, 1905) at the Luakaha residence of Mr. and 
Mrs. C. M. Cooke. Mrs. Clarence Cooke received in the absence of 
Mrs. C. M. Cooke, who is at present on Kauai with her mother, Mrs. Rice. 
A supper was served shortly after seven o'clock to which about fifty mem- 
bers of the society sat down. The exercises later in the evening were 
opened by a violin solo by Miss Ethel Andrews, accompanied on the piano 
by Mrs. Frank Atherton. Mr. Livingstone of Kamehameha sang two 
songs. He was accompanied by his wife. A brief address was made by 
Mr. C. M. Cooke, in which he welcomed the Sons and Daughters to the meet- 
ing, and also urged those present to get others to join the Society, as there 
were many here who were eligible, but who were not members. Mr. W. R. 
Castle gave the principal address of the evening, taking as his subject 
' ' The Battle of Bennington, ' ' the anniversary of which event the Society 
celebrated last night. Mr. Castle's address was as follows: 

In these days of critical research it is likely that the proper place in his- 
tory has been assigned to the Battle of Bennington. But it has not been 
my good fortune to have seen the results of such research, nor do I even 
know whether such work has been done. Every American, however, knows 
that when the story of the battle was first read by him a thrill of exultant 
satisfaction followed the reading. How much greater must have been the 
excitement and joy through the country when the report of the victory 
spread as fast as good horses could carry the news. Burgoyne was making 
unchecked progress. He was at the Hudson river. Ticonderoga, supposed 
to be an impregnable fortress, had fallen. A large quantity of guns, am- 
munition, army stores, food and clothing had fallen into the hands of the 
British. In the south, Howe, with a fine army, was threatening Philadel- 
phia ; vv ashington had been beaten near New York. The English were put- 
ting forth every effort to crush the rebellion and again bring the colonies 
into subjection. Everywhere the cause of liberty was at a low ebb. It 
seemed as though the struggle for liberty must soon collapse. Burgoyne 
evidently thought so, for he wrote to Lord Germain, ' ' As things have 



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turned out, were I at liberty to march in force immediately by my left 
instead of my right, I should have little doubt of subduing before winter 
the provinces where the rebellion originated. ' ' But his orders were to cut 
tne country in two, and thus prevent New England from helping or re- 
ceiving help from the central and southern portions. It looked as if this 
plan was destined to be covered with prompt success. The Indians were 
putting in their deadly work as auxiliaries of the British army. On all 
sides they were murdering and scalping helpless women and children, burn- 
ing farm houses and destroying the crops. Even if the British commanders 
were ashamed of such allies and wanted to restrain their brutality, they 
could not do it, and bloodshed and murder ran riot. To the present day 
a gnarled and aged oak tree is pointed out near Fort Edward where Miss 
Jane MeCrea was killed and scalped. She was known through all that sec- 
tion as one of the most beautiful, kindly and accomplished of women, and 
her tragic end inspired both fear and bitter resentment. 

Thus matters stood early in August, 1777. Burgoyne was everywhere vic- 
torious, but the stubborn fight at Hubbardton had been a dearly won vic- 
tory. He lost two hundred good fighters, and it also showed that the sturdy 
farmer, even though not a soldier, could and would fight. Many of the 
farming population in what is now Southern Vermont, Northwestern Massa- 
chusetts and from the region about Lake George and the head of Champlain 
had abandoned their homes and fled in terror from the track of the terrible 
enemy. The minister in Stockbridge wrote : ' ' We are greatly burdened 
with people who have fled from the New Hampshire Grants, almost down 
to the Connecticut line. ' ' Picture the scenes which were on all sides in the 
beautiful Housatonic valley. Frightened mothers with tender children, 
grim men, struggling between love for their helpless families, a sense of 
duty to the country and the strong desire to flght and save the homes which 
were falling into the hands of a ruthless enemy to be devastated by sav- 
ages, whose methods of warfare blanched the cheek and froze the blood 
of the listener. Everywhere there was discouragement and a growing con- 
viction that the fight for liberty was a failure. This was fostered and en- 
couraged by the proclamations frequently published by the British generals, 
offering amnesty to those who would promptly submit, but threatening a 
vengeance very terrible to the obdurate who held out against their lawful 
sovereign George III. The Americans well knew what this vengeance 
meant, for the Indian allies of the despotic and arrogant English govern- 
ment were entrusted with its execution. 

But not all patriots were discouraged. Through the ' ' New Hampshire 
Grants," in the Connecticut and Merrimac valleys, down on the coast, in 
the hills of Berkshire, the fire of liberty existed, and revived with a bright 
flame as the enemy gained victories and seemed on the point of overwhelm- 
ing the little armies of Americans. But there was no money in the treas- 
ury and the assembled farmers at Exeter sat silent and uncertain. John 
Langdon, a Portsmouth shopkeeper, arose and said: "I have $3000 in 
cash, my plate can be pledged for as much ; I have seventy hogsheads of 
Tobago rum, which can be sold for what it will bring. These are at your 
service. If we succeed, the State can pay it back; if we fail, they are of 
little use to me ! ' ' Courage at once revived ; the militia was reorganized. 
John Stark was commissioned by the Colony of New Hampshire a general 
and given free rein to do as he willed. Orders were given to march rapidly 
to the Connecticut and rendezvous at Charlestown. Soon the militia were 
there, about sixteen hundred of them, imder Colonels Stickney, Nichols and 
Hobart, General Stark being the leader of the whole force. The men were 
rapidly drilled. Some engaged in running a solitary bullet mould night 
and day. One musty old cannon was found. It was quickly mounted on a 
pair of cart wheels, and the little army started over the hills for Benning- 
ton. If the road was too steep or lost altogether, then lusty men dragged 



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the gun up the rugged hillsides. Meantime the rural towns along the 
Housatonic were sending men to Schuyler, who having a very poor opinion 
of the New England soldier, late in July sent most of them home, to their 
disgust and disappointment. Schuyler meantime was urging Washington 
to send troops from his own depleted ranks whence they could ill be spared. 
Me also ordered Stark to join him at Saratoga, but that officer, who did 
not hold a Continental commission, flatly refused. In his opinion, which 
was also that of Washington, though Stark did not know it, the course 
which promised most success was to hang on Burgoyne's flank and rear, 
attacking whenever possible, and cutting off small detachments. 

Burgoyne, who on July 30th reached the Hudson and whose course it 
seemed impossible to stem, was in serious need of transportation. It was 
represented to him that the Americans had established large stores, espe- 
cially of horses, at Bennington, which might easily be captured, and he 
resolved to send out a detachment to bring them in. Generals Phillips and 
Eeidesel, whose experience led them to believe that the Americans still 
possessed forees under leaders of dash and ability, and that a sparate de- 
tachment would occupy a position of great peril, protested against this plan. 
But Burgoyne was obdurate, and only enlarged the scope and extent of the 
plan. His instructions to Lieut. -Col. Baum, the German officer who was 
assigned to the command of the expedition, were to proceed to Bennington, 
capture the stores and horses, sending them back at once, while the re- 
mainder of the force advanced to Brattleboro, thence to return through the 
northern part of Berkshire and rejoin the army at Albany. Baum was to 
be acccompanied by Peters' corps (this was composed of Tories and In- 
dians), which was to scour the country and carry off all cattle, sheep and 
horses. It is about thirty miles from Batten Kill on the Hudson to Ben- 
nington, and Baum was expected to make the dash inside of two days. With 
a force of about eight hundred, among whom were over four hundred of the 
finest disciplined troops in the British army, Peters ' corps of about one 
hundred and fifty men, two field pieces and a company of dismounted dra- 
goons, who were to be mounted on the horses captured at Bennington. 
Baum set out early in the morning of August 1.3th. If one is to judge of 
the armament from the huge sword, ponderous musket and brass helmet 
now in the Massachusetts Senate chambers, it will appear strange that, in- 
stead of ^eing able to make a quick dash, some of those troops were capable 
of standing up at all in the muddy forest through which their route lay. It 
has always been the tradition of the country that every half hour or so the 
Hessian officers halted their men, found an open glade and then had them 
"right dress," to see if they remembered how to be soldiers. 

The news of Baum's raid spread like wildfire, and runners soon had the 
whole country aroused. Parson Thomas Allen of Pittsfield started with a 
detachment of twenty-two men at once and reached Stark on the evening of 
the 15th in a rain storm. Before daylight the next morning he presented 
a memorial to the General, in which he said, ' ' We, the people of Berkshire, 
have frequently been called upon to fight, but have never been led against 
the enemy. We have resolved, if you do not let us fight, never to turn out 
again! " ''Do you want to fight now?" asked Stark. "No! not just this 
minute, ' ' replied the reverend gentleman. ' ' Then, ' ' continued Stark, ' ' if 
the Lord will give us a little sunshine and I don't give you all the fighting 
you want, I '11 never call on you again. ' ' 

When the news of Baum's advance had been communicated to Stark, he 
divined the plan at once. A messenger was sent to General Lincoln at 
Manchester to meet Stark west of Bennington, and the latter at once ad- 
vanced to the west, checking Baum near Van Schaick's Mill on the Wal- 
loomscoick, a small branch of the Hoosae river. As the position was not 
regarded by Stark as advantageous, he retired about two miles. Baum 
followed, but sent a messenger back to report that he was driving the 



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American forces and to ask for reinforcements. Nightfall came, and both 
sides rested, the British in tents, the Americans mostly on the ground, for 
they possessed few comforts, as well as very little of the essentials of war. 
Although he had about eighteen hundred men, Stark had but one rusty gun, 
no bayonets, and was short in supplies otherwise. During the night Baum 
threw up some entrenchments. His position was a strong one, situated on a 
low hill lying within a half circle curve of the river. A bridge crossed the 
stream at the south. Here he posted some Canadian troops and Tories, 
The main body was on the hill. 

In the morning Stark divided his force into three parts. Colonels Stick- 
ney and Hobart with two hundred men were to attack the Tories east of 
the river at the bridge. Colonel Herrick with three hundred men was di- 
rected to cross above the upper bend where Baum could not see them and 
attack from the north, while Colonel Nichols with two hundred men was 
to follow and support Herrick. As these men passed through a corn field 
they pulled off the tassels and put them in their hats. This was to enable 
them to distinguish friend from foe, for neither the Americans nor Tories 
had uniforms. While waiting for the fire from Herrick, which was the 
signal for a general attack. Parson Allen of Pittsfield with other volun- 
teers was lined up, probably in the wootls or on the grass before the Tories. 
Feeling no doubt that among those enemies of his country were some of 
his neighbors and parishioners, and moved no doubt by a stern sense of 
duty, he suddenly leaped upon the trunk of a fallen tree and loudly called 
upon them to come out from among the enemies of the country or suffer 
the dire consequences. "There's Parson Allen! Let's pop him off!" was 
the answer, and a shower of bullets rattled about him; fortunately none 
of them hit him, and jnmpiug down, with his conscience satisfied probably, 
he grimly said to his brother Joseph : ' ' Now give me the musket and you 
load while I fire ! ' ' This meant something, for he was a good shot. And 
so Parson Allen fired the first shot in the Battle of Bennington. 

About three in the afternoon, a few minutes after the above incident, a 
sharp rattle of musketry was heard. Stark ordered the forward movement 
and the fight began. As he came out of the woods and the entrenchments 
lined with British soldiers in full view, he uttered his famous remark, 
* ' Soldiers, there are the red-coats ! We must beat them, or else Molly 
btark will be a widow tonight ! ' ' With a wild hurrah the Americans 
rushed up the hill in the face of a sharp fire from the British. Alone they 
might have been beaten, but the attack came from three sides, and Baum 
saw that he had been outwitted and would lose the battle. The attack on 
the Tories was so hot that in a few minutes they broke and fled, leaving 
many dead and wounded behind. Hemmed in by the Americans, they tried 
to scale the hill at its steepest point and get behind the entrenchments, but 
the digging of the earthworks at that point had made it extremely slippery, 
and as they rushed up, slipping and falling, they were fully exposed to a 
terrible fire from the forest-trained militia of the Americans. Linus Par- 
ker, afterward a famous hunter of Pittsfield, says that even had he known 
that he would be shot dead the next minute, he nearly fell down with 
laughter to see the figures scrambling up the bluff, and then as one after 
another they were shot, tumble over and roll down the hill! Rather grew- 
some fun, but we can hardly blame the patriots for bitter feeling toward 
the Tories. 

Seeing that the battle was going against him and knowing that the 
^^jiericans had no bayonets, Baum ordered a charge. His men bravely 
emerged from their works, but they were met by such a withering fire that 
they, too, broke and fled, a rabble rout. The Americans wildly shouted, 
• ' Charge ! charge ! ' ' and clubbing their muskets chased after them till the 
miserable remnant surrendered. Baum was mortally wounded during the 
charge. The victors then scattered to pick up and save whatever of booty 



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there was, and while in this totally disorganized condition, Colonel Brey- 
nian arrived with the troops sent out by Burgoyne as reinforcements. It 
was impossible to recall any large body of men, and it looked for a time 
as if the fortunes of the day were to be reversed. But fortunately Colonel 
"Warner just then reached the field with fresh troops from Manchester and 
with the aid of two captured field pieces and what troops fell in behind the 
new men, Breyman was soon completely routed, and his men abandoned the 
ueid, leaving most of their arms and ammunition, besides two guns brought 
with them. Had it not been that darkness came on, probably very few 
would have escaped. As it was, the farmers for several days captured 
wandering and starving refugees and brought them to Stark as prisoners. 
A miserable remnant of the force which so proudly marched from Bur- 
goyne only three days before returned, hungry, wayworn and unarmed, and 
were taken in by the dismayed and now disheartened British commander. 

The American loss was about thirty killed and forty wounded, while that 
of the British was two hundred killed, besides more than seven hundred 
prisoners, and unknown wounded. Stark captured four brass field pieces, 
nine hundred muskets, about the same number of dragoon swords, four 
ammunition wagons and stores, besides a large amount secured by the 
militia in person, which they carried off as souvenirs. The prisoners were 
divided into small companies and located in a number of places about the 
country. Many of them hired out to work in the harvest fields, and of 
these a large number settled and became good American citizens. A few, 
it is said, even joined the Continental army and fought against the invaders. 

The news of the victory rapidly spread and wonderfully revived the 
drooping spirits of the patriots all over the country. It gave new energy 
to the aims of the fighters, and finally decided the opinions of many who 
were uncertain which cause to espouse. In Europe the news was received 
wicu surprise and great satisfaction by the enemies of England. It was an 
important factor in determining the eventful course of France, and gave 
new energy to the opposition in Parliament, who denounced Lord North 's 
whole policy with increasing bitterness. The battle is classed by many 
with Lexington, Bunker Hill, Princeton and Trenton. To Burgoyne it 
was a stunning blow, for he realized at once the peril of his position. In 
this battle and the other skirmishes which had taken place, with desertions, 
for the Indians took alarm at the first sign of defeat and secretly crept 
away, he had lost about a fifth of his entire force. Without Bennington 
it is doubtful whether Saratoga would have been fought and gained, and 
the surrender of Burgoyne which followed might not have occurred. 

This account can hardly be closed better than with a few lines from a 
poem, if it can be so dignified, found with the papers of General Stark 
after his death: 

Here followeth the direful fate 

Of Burgoyne and his army great, 

Who so proudly did display 

The terrors of despotic sway; 

His power and pride, and many threats, 

Have been brought low by fort 'nate Gates, 

To bend to the United States. 

******** 

Sick and wounded, bruised and pounded, 528 

Ne'er so much before confounded. 

******** 

They lost at Bennington's great battle 1220 
When glorious Stark his arms rattle, 

Killed in September and October, 600 

Taken by brave Brown, some drunk, some sober, 413 



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This is a pretty just account 
Of Burgoyne's legions' whole amount 
Who came across the northern lakes 
To desolate our happy States. 
Their brass cannons we have got all, — 
Fifty-six, — both great and small; 
And ten thousand stand of arms, 
To prevent all future harms; 
Stores and implements complete, 
Of workmanship exceeding neat; 
Covered wagons in great plenty. 
And proper harness no way scanty; 
Amongst our prisoners there are 
Six generals of fame most rare ; 
Six members of their Parliament, — 
Reluctantly they seem content ; 
The British lords, and Lord Balcarras, 
Who came our country free to harass. 
Two baronets of high extraction 

Were sorely wounded in the action. — Advertiser. 

* * * » * 

The old fashioned Fourth of July celebration of 1907 was a great suc- 
cess. Not for many years has there been, what might be called, such a 
' * congregational celebration ' ' of the day — such a congregating of the people 
for the conscious and set purpose of celebrating the day. If other evidence 
of this were needed, it would be found in the frequent comparisons of yes- 
terday's celebration with those of the years in the past. It is many years 
since any occasion has brought to the Capitol grounds as large a gathering 
as attended the public literary and musical exercises at ten o 'clock yester- 
day. It has not happened often, if at all, that the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence has been read in Hawaii in the hearing of as many people as 
listened to its reading yesterday by Senator John C. Lane. Lincoln 's 
Gettysburg address, with its lofty sentiment and rolling periods had more 
auditors, as it was read by E. B. McClanahan, than Hawaii has ever fur- 
nished on one occasion before. 

The orator of the day. Judge S. B. Kingsbury, could have asked no better 
gathering, better in numbers or interest, than that which almost filled with 
a solid mass of patriotic Americans the section of the Capitol grounds sur- 
rounding the coronation bandstand. The crowds in the evening at the 
Capitol grounds to see the fireworks amounted almost to a jam. It was a 
Fourth of July when the patriotic people did not neglect the assembling of 
tnemselves together. It was a people 's and a popular celebration. 

The public celebration of the day centered and culminated in the exer- 
cises at the Capitol grounds. Many thousand people — people of eleven 
races according to Judge Kingsbury's oration — joined as hearers or par- 
ticipants in the presentation of most of the classics oi our national patriot- 
ism whether in literary or lyric expression. It is not often that one hears, 
as parts of one program, not only ' ' America ' ' and the ' ' Star Spangled 
Banner, ' ' but ' ' Hail Columbia, ' ' the ' ' ited. White and Blue, ' ' the ' ' Battle 
Hymn of the Republic, ' ' and ' ' Hail to the Flag. ' ' Yet these were all 
parts of yesterday 's program rendered by an effective choir accompanied by 
the band. And in the literature of patriotism there are no more stirring 
classics than the Declaration of Independence and Lincoln's Gettysburg 
address. Promptly at ten o'clock, Judge S. B. Dole opened the exercises. 
He spoke of what the Fourth of July stood for both as the natal day of a 
nation and a day dedicated to human and civil liberty. "It is, " he said, 
"coming to be one of the world's great holidays." 



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Judge Kingsbury's oration dealt much with the relation of Hawaii to 
the American Union, and he drew from the accounts of past celebrations of 
the Fourth of July, and from the words spoken at some of these, notably 
in addresses by Judge Sanford B. Dole, proof of the fitness of the union 
between these isles of the sea and the strong American nation. His oration 
was as follows: 

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen and Fellow Citizens: — This is the 
day we celebrate — we the people of the United States, — the strongest, rich- 
est, and most benevolent nation on earth. All right of any government to 
exist is because its governed need its government. Government itself, in 
relation to the object of its rule, has no rights — it only has duty — duty to 
govern those whom it has position and power to govern, and who need its 
government. This is true of every kind and form of government. The 
parent governs the child because the child needs control, and the parent 
has the place and the power to best do this. The teacher, for the needs of 
the pupils, properly establishes school government. God governs the Uni- 
verse because his creatures need His government. The need of those gov- 
erned to be governed is the foundation of all good and proper government. 
Hence all right government is benevolent. No right government is estab- 
lished for the good of the ruler. 

The form of our government is found in our Federal Constitution and is 
best expressed in the words of Abraham Lincoln — ' ' A government of the 
people, by the people, for the people." And because it is for the people, 
it is benevolent — it is right. If our ninety millions of people needed no 
protection, no government, then the right to govern them would nowhere 
exist. All civilized nations, of modern times, to a greater or less degree, 
recognize this truth, but, so far as I know, no nation except ours has made 
it the foundation stone of its right to exist. One hundred and thirty-one 
years ago this day our fathers proclaimed us a free and independent nation. 
This they had right to do, if the people of the then Colonies needed so to 
be governed, and, if they were able to maintain their place, as an inde- 
pendent government. War demonstrated the ability of maintenance, and 
history shows that this then proclaimed government has met and accom- 
plished the needs of the people. No wonder that the anniversary of that 
proclamation of independence brings glorious and joyous celebrations to the 
millions of the people of the United States. 

A baby is born who, it is expected, will claim to rule Spain, by Divine 
right, and that nation celebrates the event, and will do so while he lives. 
But on July 4, 1776, a government was born to the people, for the people — 
to rule only because and when the needs of the people demanded. The 
conception was Divine, and the issue stood on the foundation of God's 
benevolence and of God's constitution of government. Different forms of 
government are severally best for different people and for different ages. 
That form is best for a people which best meets the needs of the governed. 
Ours is, in form, a republic. Ours is, by the people themselves. Ours ia 
self-government, and this is the highest moral conception of restraint and of 
direction. Theoretically it is perfect, but practically it will only be good 
when the people are both wise and good. Education and regard for the 
moral precepts of religion are absolutely necessary to the beneficent exist- 
ence of a republic. Give to ignorance an oligarchy, give to baseness an au- 
tocrat — their needs demand such rulers, but the enlightened and the con- 
scientious can govern themselves. Fortunately the people of the United 
States have had such preponderance of knowledge and such sense of justice 
that, so far, our form of government has been as beneficent as benevolent. 
We have, as a nation, reached a point where we fear no governmental 
power, either foreign or domestic. Our independence was established by 
our grandfathers, our national unity by our fathers. We have peace and 
power. But the form of our government, and its provisions to safeguard 



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our personal liberties have allowed to be laid and hatched scorpion eggs of 
discord and danger. The worst men of Europe, too wicked and too in- 
subordinate to deserve to live even under a kingly rule, and who need a 
tyrant hand, flock to our shores, and under the protection of our benevo- 
lence cry out against all government, and, trampling under foot the rights 
of others, sow seeds of dissatisfaction and of dishonesty in the soil of ig- 
norance and envy. They are the people who come to us stuffed full of 
rights, but who never tasted of duties. The modern demagogue helps them, 
in order to help himself to official position. You can always tell the dema- 
gogue — he talks of his constituents, of their rights, not of duties. Like 
Tittlebat Titmouse, the demagogue promises every man everything in order 
to get support for office. Too often such men are elected, but in the main 
good men are elected to office, and we may rejoice in the truth of Lincoln's 
saying, ' ' You may fool all the people some of the time, and some of the 
people all of the time, but you can not fool all the people all the time. ' ' 
All danger to our country is internal. The only real safeguard is patriot- 
ism. As long as we, as a people, appreciate and love our country as she 
deserves, it is safe. The basis of our appreciation is knowledge, and the 
basis of love of country is true benevolence, which is a regard for the good 
of sentient being. 

There is a duty we owe to all the sentient universe, and to every sentient 
being. To each and every person capable of pain and pleasure, whatever 
his nationality or race. But the moral law and the obligation to do good 
to others is like gravity in the material world — it is in direct ratio to size, 
or moral worth, and in indirect ratio to distance. Our country is of ines- 
timable worth by its independence, its freedom, its justice, its institutions, 
its laws, and by its liberty-loving justice regarding people; its history and 
its heroes, its flag and all it symbolizes, its schools, churches, forests, moun- 
tains, lakes and rivers, its climate and its soil, its all — its motherhood of us. 
So much for its mass of moral worth. It is also nearest to us, and so it 
is our supreme obligation as a people. Our duty is where our power is, and 
that is mostly at home. 

And of this country are now the beautiful evergreen gems of the ocean, 
these Islands — as much a part of our great nation as is the spot of earth 
where was first read the Declaration of Independence. Small they are, but 
yet they are the most beautiful gems in the crown of our Columbia. Beauty 
of climate, beauty of elevation, beauty of verdure, beauty of outline, beauty 
Oi history, and beauty of character. And how wonderfully attractive is 
the history of Hawaii. Starting at the date of our natal day as a nation, 
when lived the great warrior and statesman whose heroic statue now stands 
before our palace of justice, with hand extended toward us, as if in invi- 
tation and benediction, and coming down through the different stages of 
progress, of improvement, of various and diversified changes in govern- 
ment, and governmental, social and religious institutions to the present day, 
where is history more interesting or more beautiful? Improvement has 
been the aim and result — advancement continuous. And why? Largely 
because the kind-hearted people of these Islands naturally turned to and 
loved the good ; they were anxious to learn, and took to education with a 
zeal and capacity never before seen in any race of nature people, until 
nearly all were able to read and write, until there was a smaller percentage 
of illiteracy among those of Hawaiian birth and blood than among any 
other people on earth. And this love of letters has continued, and today 
most of them read, write and speak two languages — the Hawaiian and the 
English. 1 believe that a greater per cent, of the people of this Territory 
read and speak more than one language than of any other governmental 
division. English and American literature filled with sentiments of liberty, 
respect for law, and love of justice became the thought and life of Hawaii, 
until it was natural that it unite with either the constitutional kingly gov- 



Sons of the American Revolution. 25 

ernment of Great Britain or with the constitutional republic of America. 
This latter has been brought about not by conquest or by revolution, or by 
any governmental exercise of power or statecraft, but by growth and de- 
velopment here along lines of least resistance, easy, natural, unresisted, and 
where the head and the hand followed the heart. 

As early as 1794, Kamehameha I. felt this inclination, and ceded these 
Islands to England, with certain reservations. England did not accept, and 
did not appreciate the greatness of the gift. Later, certain British officers, 
with more acquiescence than resistance on the part of this people, raised 
England 's flag and proclaimed English rule — an act repudiated by the 
justice-regarding English government. Ever since these Islands were one 
independent government, an independence first recognized by the United 
States, there has been growing in the hearts and minds of Hawaiians, Eng- 
lish thought and English love, until the people became what the American 
Colonies were when the Declaration of Independence was made — essentially 
one in thought and feeling with the great mass of the liberty-loving, jus- 
tice-respecting Anglo-Saxon race. Location, communication, and, most of 
all, teaching and preaching by New Englanders, brought the English-born 
American Eepublic nearest to the hearts of Hawaiians. 

When suggested that we today have an old-fashioned Fourth of July 
celebration, I saw many faces of born and blood Hawaiians beam with 
joyful acquiescence. But, to my astonishment, I found they meant by "old- 
fashioned, ' ' not the celebration of the days of my boyhood on the main- 
land, but celebrations of the Fourth, in their boyhood on this island, and 
during the reign of Hawaiian kings. By examining old newspapers as far 
back as 1860, and since, I found the accounts of such celebrations for 
almost every Fourth — not by a few men and foreigners, but as a general 
holiday, when most business houses closed up by choice, and I found the 
program of such celebrations were often exactly like our program for 
today. There was no disloyalty, no envy, no jealousy, no fear felt, on these 
occasions, but only an expression of love, respect and admiration for our, 
now, common country. In 1867 such a celebration of the Fourth, with 
such program as we have here today, was held in Honolulu. The orator of 
the day said : ' ' These Islands, which lie glittering in perpetual verdure 
in the midst of the Pacific Ocean, are the half-way houses on the highway 
to the East; they will always share the commercial prosperity and national 
progress of the United States. ' ' To Americans present, he said : * ' Cling 
to your nationality always. Have faith in American institutions and 
American destiny, and uelieve yourselves, and teach your children to be- 
lieve, that if you never forget your country, your country will never forget 
you. ' ' And he quoted from an English newspaper as follows : ' ' Continents 
will be populated, cities created, and half the world civilized by the grow- 
ing influence of the United States on the Pacific. ' ' 

On July 2, 1881, a paper here published a list of names of all the prin- 
cipal business houses in Honolulu, which voluntarily pledged to close up 
business on the Fourth ; and contained this in its editorial — ' ' All the world 
of Honolulu is invited to listen to the Declaration of Independence, an 
oration by our esteemed fellow citizen, Sanford B. Dole, a poem by Mr, 
M. V. Thompson, and a variety of music by the always welcome Eoyal 
band." On July 9th, 1881, the paper contained a long news article about 
the celebration of the Fourth, in which we see that Dr. McGrew presided 
over the literary exercises, Mr. Miller read the Declaration, Mr. Handon 
sang the ' ' Star Spangled Banner " so as to merit applause, after which 
Mr. S. B. Dole delivered an eloquent oration. We quote from Mr. Dole 's 
speech as follows: "But if her internal policy is not yet settled, the 
United States has set an example to the world in her external policy. Her 
acquisitions of territory, even when some of them might have been claimed 



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by results of conquest, were made by purchase, and some of the greatest 
disputes that have exercised the diplomacy of great powers have been 
settled by arbitration; so that it is found that at the end of a century of 
growth, instead of being still a learner, she is a teacher of nations in the 
science of government. ' ' 

After the oration "Eally Eound the Flag" was sung by Mr. W. W. 
Hall. Mr. Peter Cushman Jones followed with appropriate remarks. "He 
believed in being patriotic on this day above all others. America was first 
to encourage Hawaiian independence. She has given them a treaty which 
poured wealth into the land. It was her policy to keep these Islands in- 
dependent so long as self-government could be maintained. And closed 
with these words : ' ' May the Fourth of July never be less enthusiastically 

commemorated on these Islands of the Pacific." — Advertiser. 
***** 

"The Glorious Fourth" (1908) dawned in a very quiet manner, but 
went out last night in a blaze of glory. There was a large gathering in the 
morning in the grounds of the Capitol, where patriotic exercises, under the 
auspices of the Sons of the American Eevolution, were held. Dr. C. B. 
Cooper, vice-president, oflBciated. A feature of these exercises was a fervid 
appeal to the patriotism of the audience to oppose the attempt to secure 
the suspension of the coastwise shipping laws as applied to the Islands. 
This attempt, Mr. Jones, the orator of the day, denounced as un-American 
and unpatriotic, something done in the interests of the Japanese as op- 
posed to Americans. 

Miss Alice Spalding read the Declaration of Independence, her manner 
being charming and her reading exceptionally good and distinct. She was 
presented with a large bouquet of roses at the conclusion of her reading, 
the presentation causing a second round of applause for the patriotic 
maiden. Master Aki, a student of the Royal School, read an essay on ' ' The 
jri.merican Flag, ' ' showing a considerable amount of historical research. 
The essay, in full, was: 

THE AMERICAN FLAG. 

Stand by the flag, all doubt and treason scorning. 
Believe with courage firm and faith sublime 

That it will float until the eternal morning 
Pales in its glories all the lights of time. 

— John N. Wilder. 

It is the youngest of the world 's great nations over which the oldest 
established flag floats. And even so, the American Flag is a growth rather 
than a creation. Previous to the Stars and Stripes of the present, sixty- 
four designs, dating from 1494, had their use in Colonial days. Probably 
the first seed of our Star Spangled Banner was sown when, late in the year 
1774, Captain Markoe of the Philadelphia Light Horse Troops, introduced 
a flag with a canton of thirteen stripes. A year later, Dr. Franklin, with 
Messrs. Lynch and Harrison, was appointed to consider the subject of a 
national flag. The result was a design similar to the Hawaiian flag. The 
King 's Colors, or Union Jack, represented the sovereignty of England, and 
the fleld of stripes, alternate red and white, represented the thirteen colo- 
nies. The British Jack, distinctive as being the first colonial national flag, 
was hoisted for the first time over the camp at Cambridge, Mass., on Jan- 
uary 2, 1776, and was discarded when Independence was determined on. 
At the beginning of the Revolution no particular flag was adopted by the 
Americans. Various designs designated their different troops and still an- 
other flag was used by their navy. The first national flag after the Decla- 
ration of Independence had a field of red and white stripes and a blue 
square, crossed with red and white. In this flag, by the addition of the 
azure hue, we note the completion of the colors destined to remain. 



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In the year 1777 a congressional committee accompanied by General 
Washington called upon Mrs. John Ross of Philadelphia and engaged her 
to make a model flag from a rough drawing, which General Washington 
modified in pencil by substituting a five-pointed instead of a six-pointed 
star shown in the original draft. For many years after, Betsy Eoss, as she 
was familiarly called, continued to make the American Ensign, and today 
her quaint two-storied house at 239 Arch street, Philadelphia, is open to 
all who wish to visit the birthplace of the American Flag, for Congress, on 
the 14th day of June, 1777 — a date now recognized as Flag Day — adopted 
this basis of the existing national flag. It consisted of thirteen stripes, 
seven red and six white, and thirteen stars arranged in a circle on a sky- 
blue field. In number, laoth stars and stripes were emblematic of the thir- 
teen independent States of the Union. The stars are supposed to have been 
suggested by the Chief of the Washington Arms as still shown on the monu- 
ments at Brighton in Northamptonshire, England. This new constellation 
was destined to be ever looked up to with the same faith that we give 
to the starry sentinels of night. Like stars of heaven, our flag stars have 
never failed us. In both we read courage, equality to all, purity, unity 
and perpetuity. Just as the world has ever welcomed the flag which ' ' has 
never been trailed in the dust by foreign or domestic foe. Wherever it has 
floated to the breeze, in every sea and upon every land, it has been welcomed 
by all people of all nations as the inspiration to humanity, to society, to the 
attainment of equal rights. ' ' Surely it must have encouraged the early 
soldiers of America, as they followed their banner, to know that the an- 
cestors of Washington also had triumphantly borne starry ensigns across 
many a oattlefield in the far-off days of chivalry. 

The American flag was first raised over Fort Stanwix — now the city of 
Rome, N. Y. — on August 2, 1777. The following month it was introduced 
on the battlefield of Brandywine. Capt. Paul Jones was there to display it 
on shipboard as he sailed on the Schuylkill, after which it was hoisted on 
all American warships. CaiJtain Jones was also the first to cany the flag 
across the ocean and to a foreign country, when, late in the year 1778, his 
ship. The Ranger, arrived at France. Soon after The Ranger 's arrival other 
foreign warships cast anchor at the same French port, consequently saluting 
America's flag and recognizing America as a sister nation for the first time. 
Ten years later, the flag was carried around the world by the ship Columbia, 
which silent three years in circling the globe. When the second war against 
England was fought, two more States had been added to the Union and, in 
consequence, two more stars and two more stripes to the flag. Dviring this 
war Francis Scott Key wrote our national air entitled ' ' The Star Spangled 
Banner, ' ' describing the scenes which he had actually seen. This vivid 
description proves the great influence of the flag on the battlefield and tells 
us how America's sons have willingly risked all else in order to keep afloat 
the Star Spangled Banner. Everywhere, to an American ear, this air ex- 
horts the best emotion that is in mankind — patriotism ! What true citizen 
of America would not add his life to the long list of braves who willingly 
sacrificed a part of life 's ' ' little while ' ' in order that their country might 
live forever? This song also recalls the fact that the flag is the only 
monument of many gallant men swept from battlefields and closed over by 
blue seas — sleeping in unknown graves. 

As more States claimed admittance to the Union, the flag was in danger 
of becoming out of proportion should the plan of extra stripes be continued. 
Thus Congress appointed a committee to revise the flag suitably. Captain 
S. A. Reid of the U. S. Navy was a member of this committee, and to him 
is due the credit of the legislative act in March, 1818, causing the restora- 
tion of the thirteen original stripes in honor of the thirteen colonies who 
established Independence and Freedom. A star was to represent each State 
on the field of blue, and one to be added for each new State on the Fourth 



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of July following its admission. This act took effect on July 4, 1818. Thus 
the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence is also 
the anniversary of the established flag of our country. The first flag of 
this design was made in New York City by the wife of Captain Eeid, as- 
sisted by several young ladies, and was raised over the Capital of the 
United States on April 13, 1818. Since 1866 all government flags are made 
exclusively from American bunting, manufactured in America from Amer- 
ican labor and produce. The width of the flag is two-thirds its length; 
seven of the horizontal stripes, beginning with the outermost, are red; the 
six alternate stripes are white. The Union, or field of blue, contains the 
white stars in parallel lines and is one-third of the flag's length, extending 
to the bottom of the fourth red strijie. In the different departments of the 
Navy and the Army regulated sizes of flags are used. Forty-eight stars 
are now entitled to a place on the flag. The color red represents the blood 
which patriots are ready to shed; white stands for the purity of their cause, 
and blue denotes loyalty and the favor of heaven. During the Civil War, 
the northern soldiers affectionately called the flag ' * Old Glory ' ' — a name 
that has clung to it ever since. 

The American flag has crossed all seas and visited every land ; it now 
flies over the U. S. Consulate in many foreign countries, thus protecting 
America 's children abroad as well as at home. Officially it now floats over 
the icefields of Alaska, over the sunny isle of Cuba and over the Philippines 
in the Far East. One of the prettiest sights in the tropics is in Manila, 
when, after the sunset band concert on the old Spanish Plaza is ended by 
the national anthem of America, the evening gun echoes along the shore 
and the white-clad audience salute the flag and it is lowered at retreat. At 
sea the most peaceful ceremony is on American warships, when the flag 
is raised at reveille, lowered at retreat, and gracefully dips a respectful 
recognition in passing another vessel. 

Probably the first visit of the flag to the Hawaiian Islands was late in 
1789, when the American ship "Eleanor" and a little schooner called the 
"Fair American," commanded by Capt. Metcalf and his son, came here. 
On August 12, 1898, the flag came to stay and was officially raised over our 
beloved Hawaii nei. Here, in America's baby territory, situated between 
the oldest part of the old world and the newest part of the new world, the 
flag is saluted by the children of many lands and races. Nowhere else are 
the free public schools which America provides for all her youth better 
appreciated. Here, of all races and color, alike receiving the great gift of 
education and the English language, they enjoy equal rights, liberty and 
freedom. Eecently school government has been introduced, and through it 
the young citizens early comprehend citizenship — its duties and privileges. 
When school days are over, the students will be ready to take their places 
in the world — intelligent and loyal citizens of America. Hawaii is a land 
of music, and the strong voices of the Hawaiian public school children 
grandly rendering ' ' The Star Spangled Banner ' ' never fail to reach and 
thrill the heart of the listener. 

To Col. G. T. Balch, a retired U. S. Army officer, is due the credit of 
having introduced, in 1891, the salutation of the flag in the public schools 
of America. Thus, thankful for the blessings of Freedom, ere passing to 
classrooms each school day, a host of citizens-to-be respectfully salute their 
flag and, as the Stars and Stripes proudly unfurl in the morning breeze, 
in many climes, lovingly, reverently, earnestly repeat — ' ' We give our heads 
and our hearts to God and our country! One country, one language, one 
flag!" 

Hon. P. C. Jones, the orator of the day, delivered a stirring address, the 
title of which was "Our Forefathers," which he brought to a conclusion 
by some extemporaneous remarks on the local steamship situation, explain- 



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mg that this was a national question and not out of place at a Fourth of 
July gathering. Mr. Jones saia : 

If any people on the face of this earth have cause to honor and respect 
their ancestors, the Sons of the American Revolution can boast of theirs, 
for to them they are indebted for the peace, prosperity, happiness and 
liberty they now enjoy. Those grand, plain and honest men gave their 
time, their property, their talents, and in many cases, their lives, to throw 
off the British yoke, to give to their descendants the precious boon of 
Freedom, making our country a free nation, which today is the most pros- 
perous, richest, the most powerful and influential of all the nations of the 
earth. Many of our forefathers were trained in a school that prepared them 
for the great struggle of 1775, and for seven long years resisted the force 
of Great Britain. A hundred and fifty years before this period many of 
the ancestors of the men of 1775 were driven out of England because of 
religious persecution, and settled on that stern and rock-bound coast of 
New England, in a wilderness where even in that desolate region they were 
oppressed by laws that, annoyed by constant changes and cancellation of 
their charters, suffering great hardships and privations thereby, to say 
nothing of their constant struggles with hostile Indians. Then, again, about 
forty years later (1663), among other oppressive measures introduced by 
Great Britain, were laws passed by Parliament to discourage American 
shipping. In that year an act was passed which proclaimed that no com- 
modity of the growth, production or manufacture of Europe shall be im- 
ported into the British plantations, but such as are laden on board in Eng- 
land, and in English-built ships, of which the master and three-fourths of 
the crew are English. This was aimed particularly at the Americans, to 
prevent them from importing goods from England in American-built vessels, 
placing also heavy duties on many articles imported from other countries 
except Great Britain, ' ' which aroused the indignation of the American 
colonists, and sowed seeds of future rebellion." 

These pilgrims and Puritans and others by reason of the oppression of 
the home government, had no love for the mother country. They trained up 
their children, and these, their children for several generations, instilling in 
them a love for their adopted country, and not only taught them to live the 
' ' simple life ' ' but instructed them in living lives of frugality and to en- 
dure hardships and privations, so when the laws became more and more 
oppressive, and they were taxed without representation, the men of 1775 — 
liberty loving, all of them — no longer submitted, but unitedly demanded 
that taxes, as well as obnoxious standing armies, be removed. When the 
news of Concord and Lexington spread like wildfire through New England 
and the other colonies, how they flocked in to the support of their com- 
rades! These untrained men left the plow, the forge, the bench, the office, 
shouldered their muskets and marched against the most powerful nation 
of the world. Putnam from Connecticut, Stark from New Hampshire, the 
"Green Mountain Boys" from Vermont, and many others from other 
parts, traveling over roads almost impassable, ready to share all the suffer- 
ings and hardships of their countrymen. 

Those who survived Bunker Hill, the spot where British tyranny ended 
and American liberty began, with many others from all parts of the colo- 
nies, buckled on their armor for the war. They were poorly paid and fed, 
wretchedly clothed, often suffering from cold or heat, added to which 
was that terrible winter at Valley Forge, where they were only kept to- 
gether by the spirit of the immortal Washington, these forefathers marched 
bravely on through all the battles, suffering untold privations and hard- 
ships, until Yorktown gave them victory and made them free. 

The American sailor played a very important part in the American Revo- 
lution. While the Americans had no navy to speak of at the beginning of 
the war, they fitted out many privateers and performed wonders in destroy- 



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ing British ships, causing a loss of more than five hundred and fifty vessels 
and more than two million two hundred thousand pounds sterling. There 
were no better sailors than the American, who knew not only to ' ' reef, hand 
and steer, ' ' but were familiar with handling guns and small arms. In the 
year 1777 the men employed in privateering almost equaled the Continental 
Army under the command of Washington. These men did a noble service 
upon the ocean. Many of them when captured were impressed into British 
service, while many others suffered great privations and lingered and died 
in British prisons. The American people owe a debt of gratitude to the 
sailors and owners of private vessels of the Eevolution. Paul Jones was the 
naval hero of this war, but there were others as brave as Jones whose names 
were never recorded on the pages of history. ' ' The men behind the guns ' ' 
were not the only ones who stood for liberty. There were others who, by 
voice and pen, gave encouragement to those in the field and afloat, and such 
men as Patrick Henry, John Adams, Ben Franklin, Samuel Adams, James 
Otis and hundreds of" other educated men, did a grand and noble work at 
home and abroad for the cause of Freedom. And last but not least of this 
noble band of patriots were the women of the Revolution, many of whom 
were even more patriotic, if such a thing was possible, than the men. They 
took with their own hands the flintlock muskets and the powder horns from 
over the chinmey place and put them into the hands of husbands, sons, 
brothers and lovers and sent them forth with their blessing to fight for 
their country. These women tilled the land, cared for the wounded and the 
dying, denied themselves the necessary things of life, especially tea, of which 
tney were very fond. They cared for the young children at home, and told 
them of the noble deeds of their fathers, and offered up earnest prayers to 
their God for the success of the cause, and in many other ways, often at 
the risk of their lives, did noble service. All honor to the memory of these 
wives, mothers, sisters and sweethearts (our grandmothers) of the fore- 
fathers of the Eevolution (Spartan women — all) for their loving service to 
their country in its years of great need. Truly may we of this twentieth 
century be proud and very grateful for our forefathers, and may we thank 
God that our lot is cast in such pleasant places, and that we have such a 
goodly heritage. 

Following this address, Mr. Jones asked permission to add a few more 
words on a matter which, being of national importance, was proper matter 
to refer to at a Fourth of July meeting. This was in reference to the at- 
tempt made at the last session of Congress to suspend the shipping laws to 
enable American passengers to travel to and from Hawaii and the main- 
land in other than American ships. ' ' I have never believed in that suspen- 
sion," said the speaker. "It is un-American, it is wrong to ask Congress 
to remove this restriction in favor of American shipping. I know that many 
do not agree with me. Our Governor and two of our ex-Governors have ex- 
pressed themselves in favor of it, and our Delegate to Congress made a 
valuable speech in favor of the suspension before Congress, but as Amer- 
cans we should stick to American bottoms no matter what comes. The very 
first act passed by the first Congress of the United States, on July 4, 1789, 
one hundred and nineteen years ago this very day, was in favor of jjro- 
tecting the American merchant marine by allowing a discount of ten per 
cent, of the duties upon imports brovight in ships built and owned by 
Americans. Previous to this act, American vessels carried only seventeen 
and one-half per cent, of our imports and thirty per cent, of our exports, 
but in 1790, by reason of this law, American vessels carried forty-one per 
cent, of the imports, and by 1794 the foreign vessels were almost com- 
pletely driven out of the American trade, ninety-one per cent, of the im- 
ports and seventy-six per cent, of the exports being carried in American 
taottoms. In 1810 the total tonnage of the American deep-sea merchant 
marine was 984,296, and this was 164,000 tons more than the American 



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deep-sea fleet in 1900. This is the reason why we should set our faces 
sternly against any movement to cease the protection of American ships and 
not to take it off in favor of the Japanese or any other ships." — Advertiser. 

***** 

Patriotism reigned in the great auditorium of Central Union Church last 
evening (July 4, 1909), both in song, and oratory, the occasion being a 
celebration of the nation's birthday, with Governor Walter F. Frear pre- 
siding over the services, and Dr. Thomas Green, the eminent lecturer and 
orator of Chicago, as the principal speaker. The address of Doctor Green 
was not only a masterly epic but his large audience was held spellbound by 
the art of his enunciation, his beautiful word-painting, his clear narrative 
of the formation of the great American Republic and tne Stars and Stripes, 
and the influence the American nation has played in the affairs of the 
world. Doctor Green spoke for more than an hour, the rapt attention of 
the audience never lacking, the keenest interest being manifested in every 
sentence that no word be lost. Doctor Green is undoubtedly one of the 
greatest public speakers who have ever appeared before a Honolulu audi- 
ence, and his oration at today 's patriotic celebration in the Opera House will 
no doubt be another magnificent effort. 

Upon the platform with the Governor were Dr. Green, Dr. Doremus Scud- 
der, President Grifiiths of Oahu College, President Home of Kamehameha 
Schools, and Prof. W. A. Bryan. Music was furnished by a special quar- 
tette, and the solo of Mrs. Mackall was beautifully rendered. Governor 
Frear in introducing Dr. Green spoke of the separation of the colonies from 
the mother country and the establishment of the Republic, when and since, 
although church and state were forever separated, religion and patriotism 
had gone hand in hand. This was more so today than ever before. Here 
in Hawaii in a marked degree it was the missionary father and mother 
who instilled patriotism into the youth of the country and enabled Hawaii 
to be saved to itself and finally to become a part of the great Republic. 

To follow Dr. Green through the magnificent address he made in any re- 
port would be to lose the force of his enunciation and the fire and energy 
and patriotism which he instilled into every line. He went back into the 
history of the colonies and the events leading up to the separation of the 
colonies from Great Britain, the stand of the minute-men at Lexington and 
Concord, Paul Revere 's ride, the sufferings of the army at Valley Forge, 
the indomitable courage of the Continental soldier, the making of the flag 
by Betsy Ross, and the patriotic utterances of the great men of the time — 
Jefferson, Adams and others. He went back to the days of Runnymede, 
when the first liberties were wrested from the people, and back again to the 
struggles of the colonies and their victory. He spoke of the battles of 
the various wars, and then spoke particularly of the origin of the Red, 
White and Blue and the significance of the three colors. The red signified 
the glory achieved by the blood of those who had fought for it, and his 
word-painting here was beautiful. The white signified the stainless glory 
of the Republic, and the blue was God 's promise of truth. He spoke of 
witnessing a few nights ago a sunset when the western Hawaiian sky was 
filled with fluffy clouds, when the sun was sinking upon a bed of clouds, and 
finally as it sank to sleep the white was shot with streaks of red, making 
streamers of the white clouds, and beyond appearing upon the blue of 
heaven a star shone — typical, said Dr. Green, of the beauty and majesty 
of the Stars and Stripes, showing that it was God's flag which waved over 
the great Republic. It was a flag, he said, which was not crossed and criss- 
crossed with a maze of heraldic designs. These marked a personal aggrand- 
izement of princes, whose victories caused them to emblazon upon their 
standards the heraldic devices of the fallen. The Red, White and Blue had 
no such origin or meaning. 



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As to Betsy Ross, Dr. Green said that from Boston came the story that 
Betsy Ross was only a dressmaker, that she never had a conference with 
George Washington, and that she never designed the flag; but he told a 
pretty story of a little flag which had been made for him and presented to 
him by the granddaughter of Betsy Ross. She had told him the story 
which she had learned when a child sitting at Her grandmother 's knee, 
Betsy Ross told her with her own lips how George Washington came to her, 
how they talked of a flag and a five-pointed star ; how she ' ' snipped ' ' the 
five-pointed star and placed it against the blue of her skirt. That was the 
true story, and he was glad to tell it to a Honolulu audience, the story he 
had heard from the lips of the granddaughter of the maker of the flag, 
the story which the maker had told her. In New England also they had 
said that Paul Revere never made that historic ride. But it was as true 
as that Betsy Ross made the flag. — Advertiser. 

At a joint meeting of the Sons of the American Revolution and the 
Aloha Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution at the home 
of Mr. and Mrs. Perley L. Home, November 17, 1911, President A. F. 
Griffiths of Oahu College read a paper on ' ' Canada and the Colonies, ' ' a 
brief abstract of which is appended: 

"In considering the causes which led up to the American Revolution by 
wnich the Colonies gained their independence from Great Britain, interest 
is aroused in the reasons why Canada did not join with the Colonies. 

"In spite of the superficial sameness, of interest, some real differences 
appear on closer study. Canada's status as a British colony, as defined 
by the Proclamation of 1763, was fairly acceptable. The people of Canada 
lived practically in a state of feudalism which almost precluded united 
action. Of the seventy thousand inhabitants, all but about four hundred 
and fifty were Catholics, who naturally had little in common with the 
somewhat virulent type of New England Puritan. 

"Britain's policy of governing Canada was conciliatory. In the Quebec 
Act, she extended the Canadian Doundaries, removed restrictions from the 
Roman Catholic church, and established the French court procedure in 
civil cases, thus practically removing all grievances. She was most for- 
tunate in her governors, for Murray and later Carleton showed rare force 
and discretion. 

"The Continental Congress sent successively two sets of Commissioners 
to try to induce the Canadians to join forces with the Colonies, but their 
arguments fell on unheeding ears. 

"The attempts of Montgomery and of Arnold to capture Canada by 
military invasions were also unsuccessful owing to the defenders' natural 
strategic advantage in winter and to the resourceful and intrepid Carleton. 
The invasions were more than unsuccessful from a military standpoint, for 
they created a feeling of doubt and suspicion against the Colonies through 
the want of respect which the soldiers showed toward the Catholic church 
and clergy and through the payment of their commissary bills with worth- 
less continental currency and illegal certificates. 

"A summary of the reasons why Canada held aloof shows that they 
did not feel that they were oppressed, that they enjoyed freedom of press 
and religion, and that, if they did not look upon Great Britain as their 
mother country, they loved the Colonies less. They felt that Canada united 
to the Colonies would be submerged and that as French Catholics they 
could not become subject to New England Protestanism. The colonial in- 
consistency in inviting Canada to join in the Revolution and m promising 
full benefits in the event of success, and at the same time in protesting 
ao-ainst the Quebec Act, which favored Canada, was also not lost upon the 
Canadians. Finally, Canada saw disadvantages in having a neighbor and 
rival for a ruler." 



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THE SOCIETY'S INFLUENCE IN SECUEING ANNEXATION. 

At the suggestion of Compatriot Lorrin A. Thurston, an address to the 
members of the National Society in the United States, advocating the an- 
nexation of the Kepublic of Hawaii, was drawn up by the Eegistrar, and 
adopted by the Hawaiian Society on May 22, 1897. The address had the 
endorsement of the local organizations of the Grand Army of the Eepublic 
and the Sons of Veterans, and had a marked effect in bringing about the 
desired annexation. Fifty thousand copies of the address were distributed 
in the United States. The text was as follows: 

To the Members of the Society of the Sons of the American Bevolution 
Residing in the United States of America: 

COMPATKIOTS : We, members of this first chapter of the S. A. E. estab- 
lished in a foreign land, send fraternal greeting to our compatriots in the 
mother country. 

Occupying this advanced post of American civilization in the Pacific 
Ocean, we think it proper for us as patriotic Americans and lovers of liberty, 
in the present critical state of affairs, while avoiding all partisan consider- 
ations, to lay before you a statement of certain facts which intimately con- 
cern the honor and the future prosperity of our common country, and the 
maintenance of American principles and institutions here. 

These islands furnish a signal example of the pervading and transforming 
power of those principles which it is the object of our Society "to maintain 
and extend. ' ' Americans may well be proud of what a little colony of their 
countrymen has achieved for civilization in these islands, encouraged and 
aided, as it has been, by the policy of the United States for more than half 
a century. And now that this American civilization, built up vinder the fos- 
tering care of the mother country, is in imminent peril, it is time that the 
true state of affairs should be understood by all loyal Americans. 

HAWAII THK MEETING PLACE OF AMERICAN AND ASIATIC CIVILIZATION. 

These islands are the meeting place of the East and the West, of the 
American and the Asiatic forms of civilization, and a few years will wit- 
ness the triumph of one or the other. Few of our countrymen are aware of 
the rapid changes taking place in the condition of the Pacific Ocean. Aus- 
tralia is becoming a mighty commonwealth; Japan is pushing her way to 
the front as a naval and commercial power; China is beginning to awake 
out of her long sleep ; while Eussia only waits the near completion of the 
trans-Siberian railroad to compete for the control of this ocean. 

THE PROPHECY OP WM. H. SEWARD. 

The prophecy uttered thirty years ago by Wm. H. Seward bids fair to 
be fulfilled, viz : ' ' The Pacific Ocean, its shores, its islands, and the vast 
regions beyond, will become the chief theater of events in the world 's great 
hereafter. ' ' 

HAWAII WITHIN THE SPHERE OP THE MONROE DOCTRINE. 

The position of these islands shows that their relations are naturally with 
the American Continent. For that reason they properly fall within the 
sphere of the Monroe Doctrine, and it is certainly for the interest of their 
people that they should be kept aloof from the politics of the Old World. 
It has been remarked that San Francisco, Honolulu, and Unalaska form an 
equilateral triangle. The relation of these islands to the Pacific coast of 
America is very similar to that of the Bermuda Islands to the Atlantic coast. 

HAWAII'S STRATEGIC POSITION. 

Admiral Belknap and Captain Mahan have ably explained the unique 
strategic position of Hawaii, forming as it does "the center of a vast circle 



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whose radius is approximately the distance from Honohilu to San Fran- 
cisco, which is substantially the same distance as from Honolulu to the 
Gilbert, Marshall, Samoan and Society Islands, all under European control 
except Samoa, in which we have a part influence. " * * * ' * Shut out 
from the Hawaiian Islands as a coaling base," continues Captain Mahan, 
"an enemy is thrown back for supphes of fuel to distances of 3,500 or 
4,000 miles — or between 7,000 and 8,000 miles going and coming, — an im- 
pediment to sustained maritime operations well-nigh prohibitive. " " It is 
rareiy that so important a factor in the attack or defence of a coast line — 
of a sea frontier — is concentrated in a single position, and this circumstance 
renders it doubly imperative upon us to secure it if we righteously can. ' ' 

THE ' ' CROSS-ROADS OF THE PACIFIC. ' ' 

The commercial position of the islands is not less unique and important, 
standing as they do at the ' ' Cross-roads of the Pacific, ' ' at the intersection 
of the steamship lines from Australia to San Francisco and to Vancouver, 
and from San Francisco to Japan and China. The opening of the Nicaragua 
Canal and the completion of the Siberian railroad will add immensely to 
the importance of these islands as a coaling station and a distributive point 
for commerce. Nor can they be passed by in any scheme for laying tele- 
graph cables across the Pacific. 

Aside from their position on the globe, the Hawaiian Islands have a claim 
on your consideration, both for what they are and for what Americans have 
made of them. They comprise an area of nearly 7,000 square miles, or four 
million acres, the greater part of which, however, is occupied by rugged 
mountains or tracts of lava. The climate is subtropical, being modified by 
the trade winds, the ocean currents from the Bering Sea, and the lofty 
mountains, on some of which snow falls every winter. It is better suited 
for white labor than that of a large part of the southern belt of the United 
States. It may safely be said that the islands have undeveloped resources 
capable of supporting with ease five times their present population. 

AMERICANS HAVE MADE HAWAII WHAT IT IS. 

This is not the place to give even a sketch of the history of this country. 
It is well known that the Christian civilization of these islands is mainly 
due to the philanthropic labors of American citizens who saved the native 
race from the rapid extinction which threatened them, secured for the down- 
trodden serfs their lands and civil rights unknown before, preserved the in- 
dependence of their country, and assisted them in organizing and carrying 
on a constitutional government. It is mainly due to American influences 
that life and property are as secure here as in any spot on the globe, that 
justice is administered in accordance with the common law, that there is 
gratuitous compulsory education in the English language for all, that 
crimes of violence are rare, and houses generally left unlocked, while tramps 
and professional beggars are unknown. 

EX-SECRETARY FOSTER'S VIEWS. 

As Hon. John W. Foster testifies of Honolulu : "In scarcely any other 
city of the world can be found a community more fully imbued with the 
spirit of enterprise, education, and intellectual culture. ' ' 

PROPERTY OWNED AND BUSINESS CONTROLLED BY AMERICANS. 

Of the capital invested in the islands, two-thirds is owned by Americans. 
It is chiefly owing to American energy and enterprise that a population of 
about one hundred thousand souls exported productions valued at more 
than fifteen million dollars, and imported over seven million dollars' worth 
last year. Of this trade ninety-two per cent, was with the United States, 
and eighty-two and one-half per cent, of it carried on under the American 
flag. Nothing like this is true of any other foreign country in the world. 



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More than a third of all the American merchant ships engaged in foreign 
trade are employed in the commerce of this lilliputian republic. 

CAUSES OF THE OVERTHROW OF THE MONARCHY. 

This is not the place, nor is it necessary, to vindicate the Revolution of 
1893. The underlying causes of it were similar to those of the American 
Revolution. It may truly be said that it was the same element that had 
procured for the Hawaiian people their lands and their civil rights, that 
had saved their independence, and had borne with the Hawaiian monarchy 
long after it had become a demoralizing sham, and that at last was forced 
in self-defence to put an end to it. 

The revolution was not the work of filibusters and adventurers, but of 
the most conservative and law-abiding citizens, of the principal taxpayers, 
the leadeers of industrial enterprises, who had endured the rule of carpet- 
baggers and palace parasites until ' ' forbearance ceased to be a virtue. ' ' 

THE RECORD OF THE REPUBLIC. 

The record of the present republican government, which has administered 
the affairs of this country for four years, and which, according to Hon. 
John W. Foster, ' * has been distinguished by great ability, careful attention 
to the interest of the people, and by thorough integrity, ' ' fully justifies 
the character and motives of those who founded it. But this government 
does not regard itself as permanent, for by its constitution it declares its 
purpose to go out of existence as soon as the United States shall consent 
to admit these islands into the Union. It has already been shown that 
there is a vigorous American colony in the islands, and that there is ample 
wealth and intelligence here to carry on and to pay all the expenses of a 
territorial government under the broad aegis of the Union. 

HAWAII HAS ARRIVED AT A TURNING-POINT. 

It may be said: "Why not continue as you are for an indefinite period? " 
We reply that ive have arrived at a turning-point where things will not long 
remain as they are. The irrepressible contest between Asiatic and American 
civilizations is becoming more intense and will not be decided in favor of 
America except by annexation. 

An active movement has been on foot here for some time to abolish the 
system of contract labor, and to seek white workers from the United States, 
under a system of profit-sharing which is already in operation on some of 
our plantations, and has been successfully tried in Queensland. Special 
efforts have also been made by this government, with a gratifying degree of 
success, to attract industrious farmers from the United States to develop 
our coffee lands. But in our overtures for a closer union with the mother 
country are spurned, if our products are discriminated against in American 
markets, and we are treated as aliens, it is certain that neither of these 
undertakings can succeed. The uncertainty that will hang over the fate 
of this country will deter the most desirable class of settlers from coming 
here. 

JAPAN 'S PEACEFUL INVASION. 

On the other hand, Japan is quietly pouring in her people for the pur- 
pose of making a peaceful conquest of the Islands, which is a perfectly 
legitimate ambition. We can restrict or exclude Chinese immigration, for 
we have no treaty with China. But, unfortunately, our treaty made with 
Japan in 1871 contains the ' ' favored nation ' ' clause, and under its provis- 
ions we cannot prevent her people from coming as free immigrants. Five 
immigration companies are at work, with their agents in Japan, who resort 
to every artifice to drum up recruits and to evade our immigration laws. 

x'he recent enforcement of a law intended to exclude paupers has led to 
a serious controversy between the two governments. The native press of 



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Japan, and many of her people residing here, plainly avow their intention 
to possess Hawaii. It would not be good diplomacy to admit officially that 
any such intention exists, nor is it necessary for Japan to use any force to 
accomplish her ends. 

As Compatriot W. E. Castle has well stated it, ' ' When Hawaii shall be 
full of Japanese, many of whom will be educated men, and just as intelli- 
gent as our present electors, can it be supposed that we can prevent them 
from voting? Never! And by a single election all will be changed. Can 
your government object to this or complain of it? No; for it will simply 
be an act of the people of the Republic of Hawaii. Nor can you complain 
Oj. the next step, the withdrawal of all negotiations for annexation, for 
protection, or for any form of closer political or commercial union. Mean- 
while, a Hawaiian Minister will be kept in Washington, and * cordial rela- 
tions ' will be maintained with the United States, as the President will con- 
tinue to say in his messages to Congress." 

But the Republic of Hawaii would then be run by loyal subjects of the 
Mikado, its markets would be filled with Japanese products, its industries 
carried on by Japanese planters and manufacturers, and its ports filled 
with ships carrying the victorious flag of the Rising Sun. And if, when the 
time is ripe, Hawaii should proceed to ask for actual annexation to Japan, 
who would have a right to interfere? Certainly not the United States, after 
having so long refused all offers of annexation. 1 ne ' ' dog-in-the-manger ' ' 
policy will not succeed in the long run. 

OBJECTIONS TO ANNEXATION NOT "WELL FOUNDED. 

If the objections that are commonly urged in the United States against 
the annexation of the Islands on the grounds of non-contiguity, undesirable 
population, and unfitness for statehood are examined, they will all be found 
to apply in a still greater degree to the acquisition of Alaska. In fact, the 
plans of the far-seeing statesman who brought about the purchase of Alaska 
included also these islands and a future isthmian canal. The act of an- 
nexation would not per se confer American citizenship on any who were 
not already citizens of the Hawaiian Republic. The laws of the Federal 
Government in regard to naturalization and immigration would immedi- 
ately come into force, and be applied to the Asiatic elements of the popu- 
lation, and contracts for labor would cease to be made. 

Under the security of the starry flag, American skill and enterprise will 
work the same wonders here that they have done in Southern California. 
The progress of Americanization will be rapid, although the difficulties in 
the way have been greatly increased by the delay of the past four years. 

APPEAL TO COMPATRIOTS TO EXERCISE INFLUENCE IN FAVOR OF ANNEXATION. 

Believing that no half-way measure will meet the case, and that now is 
the time for the United States to secure this outpost of its western frontier, 
not only for its security and the development of its commerce, but for the 
sake of maintaining and extending American principles at this central 
meeting place of races, we request our compatriots to give this subject a 
careful and calm consideration, and to exert their influence for the cause 
of freedom, either as individuals or officially, as shall be deemed most proper. 

For the Society: 

PETER CUSHMAN JONES, President. 
JOHN EFFINGER, Secretary. 



Eighty-five excellent essays were written by the school children of Hono- 
lulu schools in February, 1912, on "Washington and His Times," in re- 
sponse to the offer of two prizes of $2.5 and $15 by Hon. Charles Henry 
Dickey, President of the Hawaiian Society. 



NATIONAL SOCIETY—SONS OF THE AMERICAN 
REVOLUTION. 

OFFICERS— 1911-12. 

Moses Greeley Paeker, Lowell, Massachusetts, President-General. 

Joseph G. Butler, Jr., Youngstown, Ohio, Vice-President-General. 

Gen. Irving Hale, Denver, Colorado, Vice-President-General. 

R. C. Ballard Thurston, Louisville, Kentucky, Vice-President-General, 

George O. Dix, Terre Haute, Indiana, Vice-President-General. 

Commander John H. Moore, U. S. N., Washington, D. C, Vice-President. 

A. Howard Clark, Washington, D. C, Secretary-General; Registrar-General, 

John H. Burroughs, New York, Treasurer -General. 

David L. Pearson, East Orange, New Jersey, Historian-General. 

Rev. John Timothy Stone, D.D., Chicago, Illinois, Chaplain-General. 



CONSTITUTION 

OF THE 

NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE SONS OF THE 
AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

(Adopted at the Denver Congress, June 3, 1907 ; amended at 
the Toledo Congress, May 2, 1910, and at the Louisville 
Congress, May 2, 1911.) 

ARTICLE I. 

NAME. 

The name of this Society shall be " The Sons of the American 
Revolution," 

ARTICLE II. 

PURPOSES AND OBJECTS, 

The purposes and objects of this Society are declared to be 
patriotic, historical and educational, and shall include those in- 
tended or designed to perpetuate the memory of the men who, 
by their services or sacrifices during the War of the American 
Revolution, achieved the independence of the American people ; 
to unite and promote fellowship among their descendants ; to in- 
spire them and the community at large with a more profound 
reverence for the principles of the government founded by our 
forefathers ; to encourage historical research in relation to the 
American Revolution ; to acquire and preserve the records of the 
individual services of the patriots of the war, as well as docu- 
ments, relics and landmarks ; to mark the scenes of the Revolu- 
tion by appropriate memorials ; to celebrate the anniversaries of 
the prominent events of the war and the Revolutionary period ; 



38 Hawaiian Society 

to foster true patriotism ; to maintain and extend the institutions 
of American freedom ; and to carry out the purposes expressed 
in the preamble to the Constitution of our country and the in- 
junctions of Washington in his farewell address to the American 
people. 

ARTICLE III. 

MEMBERSHIP. 

Section 1. Any man shall be eligible to membership in the 
Society who, being of the age of twenty-one years or over, and a 
citizen of good repute in the community, is the lineal descendant 
of an ancestor who was at all times unfailing in his loyalty to and 
rendered actual service in the cause of American Independence, 
either as an officer, soldier, seaman, marine, militiaman, or minute 
man in the armed forces of the Continental Congress or of any one 
of the several Colonies or States ; or as a signer of the Declaration 
of Independence; or as a member of a Committee of Safety or 
Correspondence ; or as a member of any Continental, Provincial, 
or Colonial Congress or Legislature ; or as a recognized patriot 
who performed actual service by overt acts of resistance to the 
authority of Great Britain. 

Section 2. No one shall be entitled to membership in any State 
Society who has previously been a member of any other State 
Society and dropped for the non-payment of dues, until the in- 
debtedness of such individual to the first Society shall have been 
adjusted. 

Section 3. Applications for membership shall be made to any 
State Society, in duplicate, upon blank forms prescribed by the 
Board of Trustees, and shall in each case set forth the name, oc- 
cupation and residence of the applicant, line of descent, and the 
name, residence and services of his ancestor or ancestors in the 
Revolution, from whom he derives eligibility. The applicant shall 
make oath that the statements of his application are true, to the 
best of his knowledge and belief. Upon the approval of an applica- 
tion by the State Society, to which it is made, one copy shall be 
transmitted to the Registrar-General of the National Society, who 
shall examine further the eligibility of the applicant. If satisfied 
that the member is not eligible, he shall return the application for 
correction. 

Section 4. The official designation of the members of the 
National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution shall 
be " Compatriots." 

ARTICLE IV. 

NATIONAL AND STATE SOCIETIES. 

Section I. The National Society shall embrace all the mem- 
bers of the State Societies of the Sons of the American Revolu- 



Sons of the American Revolution. 39 

tion, now existing or which may hereafter be estabHshed under 
tnis Constitution. 

Section 2. Whenever in any State or Territory, in which a 
State Society does not exist, or in which a State Society has be- 
come inactive or failed for two years to pay its annual dues to 
the National Society, fifteen or more persons duly qualified for 
membership in this Society may associate themselves as a State 
Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and or^-anize 
in accordance with this Constitution, they may be admitted by the 

Board of Trustees to the National Society as " The 

Society of the Sons of the American Revolution," and shall there- 
after have exclusive local jurisdiction in the State or Territory or 
in the District in which they are organized, subject to the provis- 
ions of this Constitution ; but this provision shall not be construed 
so as to exclude the admission of candidates residing in other 
States. 

Section 3. Each State Society shall judge of the qualifications 
of its members and of those proposed for membership, subject 
to the provisions of this Constitution, and shall regulate all mat- 
ters pertaining to its own affairs. It shall have authority to 
establish local chapters within its own jurisdiction and to endow 
the chapters with such power as it may deem proper, not incon- 
sistent with this Constitution. It shall have authority to estab- 
lish local chapters within its own jurisdiction and to endow the 
chapters with such power as it may deem proper, not inconsist- 
ent with the Chapter of the National Society or with this Con- 
stitution. It shall have authority, after due notice and impartial 
trial, to expel any member who, by conduct unbecoming a gen- 
tleman, shall render himself unworthy to remain a member of 
tne Society. 

Section 4. Each State Society shall submit to the Annual Con- 
gress of the National Society a report, setting forth by name the 
additions, transfers and deaths, and any other changes in the 
membership and the progress of the State Societv during the pre- 
ceding year, and making such suggestions as it shall deem proper 
for the promotion of the objects of the National Society. 

Section 5. Whenever a member, in good standing in his So- 
ciety, changes his residence from the jurisdiction of the State 
Society of which he is a member to that of another, he shall be 
entitled, if he so elects, to a certificate of honorable dismission 
from his own State Society in order that he may be transferred 
to the State Society to whose jurisdiction he shall have changed 
his residence ; provided, that his membership shall continue in 
the former until he shall have been elected a member of the latter. 
Each State Society shall, however, retain full control of the ad- 
mission of members by transfer. 



40 Hawaiian Society 

Section 6. Whenever the word "State" occurs in this Consti- 
tution, it shall be held to include within its meaning the District 
of Columbia and the Territories of the United States. 

Section 7. A Society may be formed in any foreign country 
by fifteen or more persons who are eligible to membership under 
this Constitution, which shall bear the same relation to the Na- 
tional organization as the State Society, subject to the provisions 
of this Constitution. 

ARTICLE V. 
officers and trustees. 

Section 1. The General Ofificers of the National Society shall 
be a President-General, five Vice-Presidents-General, the order of 
seniority among whom shall be determined by lot at the time of 
their election, a Secretary-General, Treasurer-General, Registrar- 
General, Historian-General, and Chaplain-General, who shall be 
elected by ballot by a vote of a majority of the members present, 
and entitled to vote at the annual meeting of the Congress of the 
National Society, and shall hold office for one year and until their 
successors shall be elected. 

Section 2. The General Officers provided for in section 1, 
together with one member from each State Society, shall consti- 
tute the Board of Trustees of the National Society. Such Trustee 
fiom each of the several State Societies shall be elected annually 
at the Congress of the National Society, upon the nomination, or 
from a list of nominees, to be made by each of the State Societies 
and submitted to the National Society by the filing thereof with 
the Secretary of the National Society at least thirty days before 
the meeting of the Annual Congress of the National Society. And 
in the event that any one or more of the State Societies shall omit 
or neglect to make such nomination or submit said list of nomi- 
nees by the time herein required, then the president of the State 
Society so in default shall virtiite officii be chosen as and become 
the representative of his State Society upon said Board. 

Section 3. The Board of Trustees shall have charge of and 
be charged with the care and custody of all property belonging to 
the National Society, and to that end shall be vested with the 
powers conferred by section 3 of the Act of Incorporation of the 
National Society: Provided, however, that it shall not have the 
power to sell, convey, or in any wise encumber any real estate 
belonging to the Society without the assent of three-fourths of 
the members of said Board. The Board of Trustees shall also 
have authority to adopt and promulgate the By-Laws of the Na- 
tional Society, to prescribe the duties of the General Officers, to 
provide the seal, to designate and make regulations for the issue 
of the insignia, and to transact the general business of the Na- 
tional Society during the intervals between the sessions of the 



Sons of the American Revolution. 41 

Congress. Meetings of the General Board may be held at the 
call of the President-General, or, in case of his absence or in- 
ability, at the call of the Senior Vice-President-General, certified 
by the Secretary-General. Meetings shall be called at the re- 
quest of seven members. At all such meetings seven shall con- 
stitute a quorum. 

Section 4. An Executive Committee of seven, consisting of the 
President-General as chairman and six members, to be nominated 
by him and approved by the Board of Trustees, shall, in the in- 
terim between the meetings of the Board, transact such business 
as may be delegated to it by a Congress of the Society or the 
Board of Trustees. 

ARTICLE VI. 
dues. 

Each State Society shall pay annually to the Treasurer-General, 
to defray the expenses of the National Society, fifty cents for each 
active member thereof, unless intermitted by the National Con- 
gress. All such dues shall be paid on or before the first day of 
April in each year for the ensuing year, in order to secure repre- 
sentation in the Congress of the National Society. 

ARTICLE VII. 

meetings and elections. 

Section L The annual Congress of the National Society for 
the election of the General Officers and for the transaction of 
business shall be held on the third Monday of May in each year. 
The place of such meeting shall be designated by the Board of 
Trustees. 

Section 2. Special meetings of the Congress may be called 
by the President-General, and shall be called by him when di- 
rected so to do by the Board of Trustees, or whenever requested 
in writing so to do by at least five State Societies, on giving thirty 
days' notice, specifying the time and place of such meeting and 
the business to be transacted. 

Section 3. The following shall be members of all such annual 
or special meetings of the Congress, and shall be entitled to vote 
therein : 

(1) All the officers and the ex-Presidents-General of the Na- 
tional Society. 

(2) The members of the Board of Trustees and the President 
and Senior Vice-President of each State Society. 

(3) One delegate at large from each State Society. 

(4) One delegate for every one hundred members of the So- 
ciety within a State and for a fraction of fifty or over. 



42 Hawaiian Society 

ARTICLE VIII. 

PERMANENT FUND. 

Section 1. • There shall be created and maintained a Perma- 
nent Fund of the Society ; the income or interest from which shall 
be placed in the general treasury of the Society, and available 
for the general purposes of the Society, but the principal of which 
shall be maintained intact, and shall only be used or diminished 
upon the unanimous recommendation of the Executive Committee 
approved by the Board of Trustees and ratified by a four-fifths 
vote of the delegates present at the annual or special Congress to 
which such recommendation of the Executive Committee shall 
be reported. 

Section 2. The Permanent Fund shall be composed of all 
legacies or donations to the Society, where no other application 
of the funds is designated by the testator or donor, all commis- 
sions received from the sale of badges, rosettes and ribbon, and 
such sum or sums as may from time to time by the Executive 
Committee be transferred to such fund from the general funds 
of the Society. 

Section 3. The Permanent Fund shall be invested in securities 
authorized to be held by Savings Banks in Massachusetts, Con- 
necticut or New York, and any premium paid in securing such 
securities shall be repaid from the first income received. 

Section 4. After the adjournment of the Eighteenth Annual 
Congress of this Society, State Societies shall be represented at 
meetings of the National Society only by members of their own 
State Society, either duly elected or who in the absence of regu- 
larly elected delegates may be chosen by the regularly elected 
attending delegates of such State Society from the members of 
such State Society who may be present at any meeting of the 
National Society. 

ARTICLE IX. 

AMENDMENTS. 

This Constitution may be altered or amended at any meeting 
of the Congress of the National Society, provided that sixty days' 
notice of the proposed alterations or amendments, which shall 
first have been recommended by a State Society, or by a prior 
Congress, or by the Board of Trustees, or by the Executive Com- 
mittee of the National Society, shall be sent by the Secretary- 
General to the President of each State Society. 

A vote of two-thirds of those present shall be necessary to their 
adoption. 

ARTICLE X. 
This Constitution shall take eflfect upon its adoption. 



Sons of the American Revolution. 43 

BY-LAWS 

OF THE 

NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE SONS OF THE 
AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

(Adopted at Denver Congress, June 3, 1907.) 

ARTICLE I. 

election of officers. 

All nominations of General Officers shall be made from the 

floor, and the election shall be by ballot. A majority shall elect. 

The nominations may be acted upon directly, or may be referred 

to a committee to examine and report. 

ARTICLE II. 
officers. 
The duties of the General Officers shall be such as usually ap- 
pertain to their offices, and they shall have such other duties as 
are hereinafter imposed or shall be delegated to them by an an- 
nual Congress or by the Board of Trustees. They shall report 
at the annual meeting and at such other times as they may be re- 
quired to do so by the Board of Trustees. 

ARTICLE HI. 

PRESIDENT-GENERAL. 

Section 1. The President-General, in addition to his general 
duties, shall be ex-officio chairman of the Board of Trustees and 
of the Executive Committee and a member of every other com- 
mittee. 

Section 2. At each annual meeting he shall appoint the fol- 
lowing Standing Committees : 

Committee on Auditing and Finance. 

Committee on Credentials. 

Memorial Committee. 

Committee on Organization. 

Committee on Education. 

The duties of the above committees shall be such as usually 
pertain to committees of like character, and such as may be de- 
fined by the Board of Trustees. 

ARTICLE IV. 

VICE-PRESIDENTS-GENERAL. 

Section 1. In the absence of the President-General, the Senior 
Vice-President-General present shall preside at the annual meet- 
ing. 

Section 2. In the prolonged absence or inability to act of the 
President-General, the executive authority shall be vested in the 
Vice-Presidents-General in order of precedence. 



44 Hawaiian Society 

ARTICLE V. 

SECRETARY-GENERAL. 

The Secretary-General, in addition to his general duties, shall 
have charge of the seal, give due notice of all meetings of the 
National Society or Board of Trustees. He shall give due notice 
to all general officers and State Societies of all votes, orders, and 
proceedings affecting or appertaining to their duties. He shall 
distribute all pamphlets, circulars, rosettes and supplies, as di- 
rected by the Board of Trustees. 

ARTICLE VI. 

TREASURER-GENERAL. 

Section L The Treasurer-General shall collect and receive 
the funds and securities of the National Society. He shall de- 
posit the same to the credit of the *' Society of the Sons of the 
American Revolution," and shall draw them thence for the use 
of the National Society as directed by it or by the Board of 
Trustees, upon the order of the President-General countersigned 
by the Secretary-General. His accounts shall be audited by a 
committee to be appointed at the annual meeting. 

Section 2. He shall give bond for the safe custody and appli- 
cation of the funds, the cost of such bond to be borne by the 
National Society. 

ARTICLE VII. 

REGISTRAR-GENERAL. 

The Registrar-General shall keep a register of the names and 
dates of the election, resignation or death of all members of the 
several State Societies, and shall have the care and custody of 
all duplicate applications for membership. He shall issue upon 
the requisition of the Secretary or Registrar of the several State 
Societies certificates of membership and insignia to every mem- 
ber entitled thereto, through such Secretary or Registrar. 

ARTICLE VIII. 

HISTORIAN-GENERAL. 

The Historian-General shall have the custody of all the histor- 
ical and biographical collections of which the National Society 
may become possessed and shall catalogue and arrange the same, 
and shall place the same in a fireproof depository for preservation. 

ARTICLE IX. 

CHAPLAIN-GENERAL. 

The Chaplain-General shall be a regularly ordained minister, 
and shall open and close all general meetings of the National 
Society with the services usual and proper on such occasions. 



Sons of the American Revolution. 45 

ARTICLE X. 

STATE SOCIETIES. 

Every State Society shall — 

(1) Notify the Secretary-General of the election and appoint- 
ment of all officers, nominees for the Board of Trustees and 
delegates. 

(2) Pay to the Treasurer-General on the first day of March, 
or v^ithin thirty days thereafter, the sum of fifty cents for each 
active member thereof. 

(3) Transmit to the Registrar-General duplicate applications 
of all accepted members, and notify him of the resignation or 
death of all members thereof. 

ARTICLE XI. 

BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 

Section \. The Board of Trustees shall prepare and carry out 
plans for promoting the objects and growth of the Society; shall 
superintend its interests, and shall execute such other duties as 
shall be committed to it at any meeting of the National Society. 
It shall have charge of the printing of the diploma and the manu- 
facturing of the Insignia, and shall determine the price at which 
the same shall be issued. 

Section 2. It shall have the authority to admit or reorganize 
as a State Society any association of fifteen or more persons duly 
qualified for membership in the Society. 

Section 3. It shall have power to fill any vacancy occurring 
among the General Officers, and an officer so elected shall act 
until the following annual election and until his successor shall 
be elected. 

Section 4. It shall have authority to make, alter, and amend 
the By-Laws as hereinafter provided. 

Section 5. The President-General may call meetings of the 
Board of Trustees at any time he may deem necessary, and shall 
call such meetings upon the written request of any five members 
thereof; provided, that of any meeting other than such as may 
be called during the session or immediately upon the adjourn- 
ment of an annual or special Congress of the National Society, 
not less than five days' notice of the time and place of such 
meeting shall be given. 

ARTICLE XII. 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

A meeting of the Executive Committee may be called at any 
time by the President-General, and such meeting shall be called 
upon the written request of three members thereof. It shall be 
the duty of the Executive Committee to exercise the powers and 



46 Hawaiian Society 

perform the duties committed to it by any annual or special Con- 
gress or by the Board of Trustees ; to control and supervise all 
arrangements for the holding of the annual or any special Con- 
gress, and the social and other functions connected therewith ; 
it shall upon the request of the proper committee of the National 
Society or of the Board of Trustees, assist in the organization of 
new State Societies, and increasing the membership of weak 
State Societies, and for these purposes may incur its necessary 
expenses, limited to such amounts as may be in the treasury un- 
appropriated, and not required for the current expenses of the 
National Society during the year. 

ARTICLE XIII. 

SEAL. 

The Seal of the Society shall be two and three-eighths of an 
inch in diameter, charged with the figure of a minute man grasp- 
ing a musket in his right hand, and surrounded by a constellation 
of thirteen stars, who shall be depicted in the habit of a husband- 
man of the period of the American Revolution, and as in the act 
of deserting the plow for the service of his country; the whole 
encircled by a band three-eighths of an inch wide, within which 
shall appear the legend " National Society of the Sons of the 
American Revolution, organized April 30, 1889." 

ARTICLE XIV. 

CERTIFICATES. 

All members of this Society, wherever admitted, shall be en- 
titled to a certificate of membership duly attested by the President- 
General, Secretary-General, and Registrar-General, countersigned 
by the President, Secretary and Registrar of the State Society to 
which such member shall have been admitted. 

ARTICLE XV. 

INSIGNIA. 

The Insignia of the Society shall comprise (1) a cross sur- 
mounted by an eagle in gold; (2) a rosette. 

Section 1. The cross shall be of silver, with four arms, cov- 
ered with white enamel and eight gold points same size as a 
Chevalier's Cross of the Legion of Honor of France, with a gold 
medallion in the center, bearing on the obverse a bust of Wash- 
ington in profile and on the reverse the figure of a minute man 
surrounded by a ribbon enameled blue, with the motto: "Libertas 
et Patria" on the obverse, and the legend, "Sons of the American 
Revolution," on the reverse, both in letters of gold. The cross 
shall be surmounted by an eagle in gold, and the whole decora- 
tion suspended from a ring of gold by a ribbon of deep blue with 



Sons of the American Revolution. 47 

white and buff edges, and may be worn by any member of the 
Society on ceremonial occasions only, and shall be carried on the 
left breast, or at the collar if an officer or Past President-General 
of the National Society or the President, active or past, of a State 
Society. 

Section 2. The rosette shall be seven-sixteenths of an inch in 
diameter, of usual pattern, displaying the colors of the Society, 
blue, white and buff, and may be worn by all members at discre- 
tion in the upper left-hand buttonhole of the coat. 

ARTICLE XVI. 
indebtedness. 

No debts shall be contracted on behalf of the National Society. 
Every obligation for the payment of money, except checks drawn 
against deposits, executed in the name of or on behalf of the Na- 
tional Society, shall be null and void. 

ARTICLE XVII. 
order of business of the annual congress. 

1. Calling the Congress to order by the President-General. 

2. Opening Prayer by the Chaplain-General. 

3. Appointment of a Committee on Credentials. 

4. Remarks by the President-General on condition and needs 

of the Society. 

5. Report of Committee on Credentials. 

6. Reading of Minutes of the last Congress. 

7. Report of Board of Trustees. 

8. Reports of General Officers. 

9. Reports of Standing Committees. 

10. Reports of Special Committees. 

11. Reports of State Societies. 

12. Old and unfinished business. 

13. New business, including election of Officers and Trustees. 

14. Adjournment. 

15. Provided, that for a special purpose the Congress may, by a 

vote of two-thirds of those present and voting, suspend 
the above order of business. 

ARTICLE XVIII. 

amendments. 

These By-Laws may be altered or amended by a vote of three- 
fourths of the members present at any meeting of the Board of 
Trustees, notice thereof having been given at a previous meeting. 



HAWAIIAN SOCIETY— SONS OF THE AMERICAN 
REVOLUTION. 

OFFICEES— 1911-12. 

Charles Henry Dickey, President 

Robert James Pratt, Vice-President 

Perley Leonard PIorne, Secretary 

Frederick Dwight Lowrey, Treasurer 

Howard Charles Mohr, Registrar 

Francis Blakeley McStocker, Member Board of Directors 

Charles Henry Atherton, Member Board of Directors 

Amos Francis Cooke, Member Board of Directors 



CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS 

OF THE 

HAWAIIAN SOCIETY OF THE SONS OF THE 
AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

Adopted June 17, 1895, with amendments. 

ARTICLE I. 

The name of this Society shall be " The Hawaiian Society of 
the Sons of the American Revolution." 

ARTICLE II. 

The objects of this Society are to perpetuate the memory and 
spirit of the men who achieved American Independence, by en- 
couragement of historical research in relation to the Revolution ; 
the preservation of documents and relics, and of the records of 
the individual services of Revolutionary soldiers and patriots, and 
the promotion of celebrations of patriotic anniversaries ; to diffuse 
among the young a knowledge of the great events of American 
history ; to foster true patriotism and love of country, and to pro- 
mote social intercourse and good feeling among its members. 

ARTICLE III. 

Any man shall be eligible to membership in this Society who, 
being of the age of twenty-one years or over, and a citizen of 
good repute in the community, is the lineal descendant of an an- 
cestor who was at all times unfailing in his loyalty to and ren- 
dered actual service in the cause of American Independence, 



Sons of the American Revolution. 49 

either as an ofificer, soldier, seaman, marine, militiaman or minute 
man, in the armed forces of the Continental Congress or any one 
of the several Colonies or States or as a signer of the Declaration 
of Independence; or as a member of a Committee of Safety or 
Correspondence, or as a member of any Continental, Provincial, 
or Colonial Congress or Legislature; or as a civil ofificer either 
of one of the Colonies or States or of the national government; 
or as a recognized patriot who performed actual service by overt 
acts of resistance to the authority of Great Britain. 

ARTICLE IV. 

The ofificers of this Society shall be a President, Vice-Presi- 
dent, Secretary, Treasurer and a Registrar ; the ofifice of Regis- 
trar and Treasurer can be held by the same person. 

ARTICLE V. 

A meeting for the election of ofificers and the transaction of 
business shall be held annually in the city of Honolulu on the 
17th day of June (the anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill) 
and meetings for business and social purposes shall be held at 
such time and places as the Board of Managers may determine. 
If the annual meeting shall fall on Sunday, it shall be held the 
following day. 

ARTICLE VI. 

There shall be a Board of Managers whose duty it shall be to 
conduct the afifairs of this Society, which Board shall consist of 
the ofificers of this Society and three other members, who shall 
be elected at the annual meeting. The Board of Managers shall 
have power to fill vacancies, which appointment shall hold good 
until the next annual meeting. 

ARTICLE VII. 

This Constitution may be amended, altered or repealed at any 
annual meeting of the Society by a vote of three-fourths of the 
members present. 

ARTICLE VIII. 

A quorum of the Society for the transaction of business shall 
consist of ten members ; of the Managers five members ; but a 
less number may adjourn. 



50 Hawaiian Society 

BY-LAWS. 
Adopted June 17, 1895. 

Section I. All applications for membership must be made in 
duplicate on blanks furnished by the Society, and be sworn to 
by the applicant. 

Section II. All applications for membership shall be sub- 
mitted to the Board of Managers for examination, and when ap- 
proved by said Board shall be placed with the Registrar for 
preservation, and upon approval by the Registrar-General of the 
National Society and payment of membership fee the applicant 
shall become a member of the Society. 

Section III. The membership fee shall be two and a half 
dollars ($2.50), including certificate and a yearly fee of two 
dollars ($2.00). The payment by a member at any time of 
twenty-five dollars ($25.00) shall constitute the person on paying 
such sum a Life Member, and he shall thereafter be exempt from 
the payment of yearly dues. 

Annual dues shall be payable to the Treasurer on or before the 
17th of June each year. The failure to pay dues for two years 
shall be regarded at the option of the Board of Managers as 
terminating the membership of such person. 

Section IV. The Secretary shall keep the records of the 
Society, notify members of meetings and perform the usual 
duties of a secretary. 

Section V. The Treasurer shall collect all dues, keep the funds 
of the Society, and shall pay out nothing except upon the order 
of the President. 

Section VI. The Registrar shall keep all applications and 
make a record of the same, and have the custody of all books, 
papers and relics of which the Society may be possessed. 

Section VII. These By-Laws may be altered or amended at 
the annual meeting or at a special meeting, provided notice of 
the same shall be given upon the call for the meeting. 



Sons of the American Revolution. 51 

PAST OFFICERS OF THE HAWAIIAN SOCIETY. 
1895 — President, Peter Cushman Jones; Vice-President, Albert Francis 
Judd; Secretary, John Effinger; Treasurer, William J. Forbes; 
Registrar, William DeWitt Alexander; Board of Managers, Rev. 
Douglas Putnam Birnie, John Walter Jones, Henry Weld Severance. 
1896— President, Peter Cushman Jones; Vice-President, Albert Francis 
Judd; Secretary, John Effinger; Treasurer, William J. Forbes; 
Registrar, William DeWitt Alexander; Board of Managers, Rev. 
Douglas Putnam Birnie, John Walter Jones, W. F. Allen. 
1897— President, Peter Cushman Jones; Vice-President, Lorrin A.' Thurs- 
ton; Secretary, W. O. Atwater; Treasurer, William J. Forbes; 
Registrar, William DeWitt Alexander; Board of Managers, Francis 
B. McStocker, William W. Hall, John Walter Jones. 
1898— President, Albert Francis Judd; Vice-President, William F Allen- 
Secretary, W. O. Atwater; Treasurer, William J. Forbes; Registrar' 
Wilham DeWitt Alexander; Board of Managers, Peter Cushman 
Jones, William R. Castle, Frederick Jewett Lowrey. 
1899— President, William P. Allen; Vice-President, William R. Castle- 
Secretary, William O. Atwater; Treasurer, William J. Forbes; 
Registrar, William DeWitt Alexander; Board of Managers, Peter 
Cushman Jones, Albert Francis Judd, Frederick Jewett Lowrey 
1900— President, William F. Allen; Vice-President, William R. Castle; Sec- 
retary, William O. Atwater; Treasurer, William J. Forbes; Registrar 
William DeWitt Alexander; Board of Managers, Peter Cushman 
Jones, Frederick Jewett Lowrey, William C. Parke. 
1901— President, William R. Castle; Vice-President, Frank S Dodge- Sec- 
retary, William O. Atwater; Treasurer, William J. Forbes; Regis- 
trar, Wilham DeWitt Alexander; Board of Managers, Albert 
Francis Judd, William C. Parke, Frederick Jewett Lowrey 
1902— President, Frank S. Dodge; Vice-President, Frederick Jewett Low- 
rey; Secretary, William O. Atwater; Treasurer, William J Forbes- 
Registrar, William DeWitt Alexander; Board of Managers, Charles 
M. Cooke, William C. Parke, Albert Francis Judd 
1903— President, Frederick Jewett Lowrey; Vice-President, George R Car- 
ter; Secretary, Sidney M. Ballon; Treasurer, William J. Forbes - 
Registrar, William DeWitt Alexander; Board of Managers, Frank 
S. Dodge, Lyle A. Dickey, William 0. Atwater. 
1904-5— President, Charles M. Cooke; Vice-President, John Effinger- Sec- 
retary, William C Parke; Treasurer, William J. Forbes; Registrar 
Wilhani DeWitt Alexander; Board of Managers, Lorrin A. Thurston, 
Jared G. Smith, Lyle A. Dickey. 
1906— President, John Effinger; Vice-President, Lorrin A. Thurston- Sec- 
retary, Lyle A Dickey; Treasurer, Charles Hustace, Jr.; Registrar, 

t ,7 w-,? °^' S^^'*^ ^^ Managers, Gerrit P. Wilder, Jared G 
Smith, Wallace R. Farrington. 

1907— President, John Effinger; Vice-President, Lorrin A. Thurston- Sec- 
retary Lyle A. Dickey; Treasurer, George P. Cooke; Registrar, Sid- 

S!^s^thX;it^P^tiit.'^^°^^^^^' ™^^^ ^- ^^"^^^^-' ^-^^ 

1908-President George R. Carter; Vice-President, Dr. Charles Bryant 
Cooper; Secretary, Lyle A. Dickey; Treasurer, Robert James Pratt - 

AfC^''T?''?'^.^V^^"""' ^^^^^ °^ Managers, Charles HenrV 
1909 pS 1 ; Frederick Jewett Lowrey, Gerrit Parmele Wilder. ^ 

1909-President George R. Carter; Vice-President, Dr. Charles Bryant 

Coope^; Secretary, Lyle A. Dickey; Treasurer Robert James p7at?- 

AtWoT' S'^^T^- ,^^V^^"«"'- B°-^^^ of Managers, Charles Henry 
IQIon P -i' ^'^?f™^ J^^*^" l^owvey, Gerrit Parmele Wilder 
1910-11-P^esK^nt, Dr. Charles Bryant Cooper; Vice-President, Charles 

H Dickey; Secretary, Perley L. Home; Treasurer, Frederick D 

CooT7'r^'^''*p'V^^r Effinger; Board of Managers, A Francis 
Cooke, George P. Castle, Howard C. Mohr. 



52 Hawaiian Society 

EECOEDS HAWAIIAN SOCIETY. 

National No. Territorial No. 

4641 1 

WILLIAM DeWITT ALEXANDEE, Historian; born in Honolulu, April 2, 
1833; admitted June, 1895. 

William Patterson Alexander=Mary Ann McKinney. 
Mordecai McKinney=:Mary Chambers. 
Col. William Chainbers=EleanoT Talbot. 
Also: 

Mordecai McKinney=Mary Chambers. 
Mordecai McKinney= Agnes Bodine. 
Also: 

William Patterson Alexander=rMary Ann McKinney. 
James Alexanderr=:Mary (Eose) Depew. 
Alexander Eose= 

Col. William Chamlers was born in Carlisle, Pa., in 1744. He is men- 
tioned in the minutes of the Council of Safety, as Captain in the First 
Eegiment of Cumberland Co., Pa., in 1777, under Col. Ephraim Blaine, 
great-grandfather of Hon. James G. Blaine, and later as Colonel in com- 
mand of the Third Battalion Pennsylvania Associators and Militiamen 
July 31, 1777, May 14, 1778, and April 23, 1779. He fought in the 
battle of Brandywine and in the battles of Trenton and Princeton. He 
died in Carlisle, Pa., October 5, 1809. Mordecai McKinney, born in 
Middlesex Co., N. J., in 1727; was lieutenant under Col. Plunkett in 
Associators of Northumberland Co., Pa., and a delegate July 4, 1776, to 
the convention in Lancaster, Pa., of the Associators Battalions of Penn- 
sylvania. He served as a member of the Committee of Safety of North- 
umberland Co., Pa., for six months, from August 13, 1776. In 1778 he 
was appointed Justice of the Peace for Northumberland Co., Pa. He 
died April 4, 1782, in Northumberland Co., Pa. Alexander Rose was first 
lieutenant of the Sixth Virginia Eegiment, March 4, 1776, and was made 
captain in the Seventeenth Virginia Eegiment, September, 1776. 

4652 2 

WILLIAM DOUGLAS ALEXANDEE, born in Honolulu, May 26, 1862; 
admitted June, 1895. 

William DeWitt Alexander=Abigail Charlotte Baldwin, 
Dwight Baldwin^nCharlotte Fowler. 
Solomon Fowler=:L»live Douglas. 
Col. William Douglas=lIannah Mansfield. 

Col. William Douglas was born in Plainfield, Conn., January 27, 1742. 
He served under Capt. Israel Putnam in the French and Indian War, 
and took an active part in the taking of Quebec in 1759. In 1775 he 
commanded a company of New ■ Haven men in the expedition against 
Montreal under Gen. Montgomery. He took command of the flotilla on 
Lake Champlain, and rendered important service in the siege and capture 
of St. Johns at the head of the lake. In the spring of 1776 he raised a 
regiment, of which he was commissioned colonel, and joined the army 
under Gen. Washington at New York. He took part in the disastrous 
campaign of Long Island, and served in the engagements at Harlem 
Heights, White Plains, Philip Manor, Croton Eiver, and New York, 
where his horse was shot under him and his clothes were perforated with 
bullets. Having lost his health from exposure in this campaign, he was 
obliged to return to his family in Northford, Conn., where he died May 
28, 1777. 



Sons of the American Revolution. 53 

Also : 

Dwight Baldwin=Charlotte Fowler. 
Solomon Fowler=01ive Douglas. 
Capt. Josiah Fowler='R\\t\i Hall. 

Capt. Josiah Fowler was born May 31, 1724, in Durham, Conn. He 
served as corporal under Col. Wm. Douglas in the expedition to Canada. 
He was afterward commissioned as captain, and joined with Major 
Meigs in an expedition to Long Island, where they captured ninety of 
the enemy. He died in Northford, Conn., May 17, 1802. 

Also: 

Dwight Baldwin=Charlotte Fowler. 

Seth Baldwin=Rhoda Hull. 

Ahial Baldivin=M.eh\ta.h\e Johnson. 

Abial Baldwin was a private in Capt. James Robinson's company in 

Col. Thaddeus Cook's regiment of militia when called for the relief of 

New Haven and Fairfield, Conn., July, 1779, in Tryon's invasion. 
Also descendant of Col. William Chambers, Mordecai McKinney, and 

Alexander Eose. (See record of William DeWitt Alexander.) 
14626 76 

FREDERICK J. AMWEG was born in Harrisburg, Pa., May 9, 1856; 

admitted 1902. 

John M. Amweg=Margaret H. Fenn. 

Frederick J. Fenn=Emeline Haskins. 

James Fenn=Lois Sedgwick. 

Theophilus Fenn. 

Theophilus Fenn was born in Wallingford, Conn., in 1747, He served 

as orderly sergeant under Gen. Wolfe in the Canadian campaign and at 

the storming and capture of Quebec in 1765 was taken prisoner by the 

French, but made his escape from Crown Point. At the outbreak of the 

Revolutionary War he raised a company and marched to the front at the 

first sound of arms. He reached Concord just too late to participate in 

the engagement, but fought bravely at Bunker Hill, where he was so 

severely wounded as to be disabled for further service. He was a farmer, 

and for thirty years represented the town of Canaan in the Connecticut 

Assembly. 
4653 3 

CHARLES HENRY ATHERTON, treasurer Castle & Cooke, Ltd.; born 

in Honolulu, July 12, 1867 ; admitted June, 1895. 

Joseph Ballard Atherton= Juliette Montague Cooke. 

Amos Starr Cooke=:Juliette Montague. 

Joseph Piatt Cooke=Annis Starr. 

Col. Joseph Piatt Coofce^Sarah Benedict. 

Also: 

Amos Starr Cooke=Juliette Montague. 

Caleb Montague=Martha Warner. 

John Montague3=Abigail Hubbard. 

Capt. Caleb Montague=Hmii(ie Root. 

Also: 

Amos Starr Cooke=Juliette Montague. 
Joseph Piatt Cooke=i:Annie Starr. 
Capt. Thomas Starr= 
Also: 

John Montague=Abigail Hubbard. 
Israel Hubbard. 



54 Hawaiian Society 

Col. Joseph Piatt Cooke was born at Stratford, Conn., January 4, 1730, 
and died at Danbury, Conn., February 3, 1816. He held a commission as 
Colonel in the Revolutionary War, and commanded the Militia at Dan- 
bury when it was attacked by the British troops under Gen. Tryon, April 
26, 1777. He is said by S. C. Goodrich to have "enjoyed the friendship 
and confidence of Washington, and the acquaintance of Lafayette, Roch- 
ambeau and Count De Grasse, whom he entertained at his house. ' ' He 
represented Danbury in the Connecticut Legislature in 1776, 1778, and 
1780-1784, being a decided Federalist in his opinions. The epitaph on 
his tombstone at Danbury states that he was ' ' Educated at Yale, grad- 
uated 1750. In the progress of a long life, he filled many public offices, 
with usefulness to the public and reputation to himself. ' ' Capt. Caleb 
Montague was born at Sunderland, Mass., July 27, 1731, and died No- 
vember 9, 1782. His commission as Captain in the Continental Army, 
dated at Watertown, N. Y., May 10, 1776, and signed by the "major 
part of the Council, ' ' is still extant. He served in the army during the 
Revolutionary War, and it is said that his comparatively early death was 
caused by exposure in said service. Capt. Thomas Starr was born at 
Danbury, Conn., in 1720, and died in 1808. He took part in the defence 
of Danbury, April 26, 1777, against the British troops under Gen Tryon, 
who burned the town. On June 1, 1777, he was commissioned Ensign in 
the Seventh Regiment, Connecticut line. He was promoted to be Second 
Lieutenant January 25, 1778, and First Lieutenant March 12, 1780. 
He went into service at Peekskill, N. Y., in the spring of 1777, and in 
September joined Gen. Washington's army in Pennsylvania. He was 
in the battle of Germantown, October 4, 1777, and was in camp at Valley 
Forge during the winter of 1777-1778. He fought in the battle of Mon- 
mouth, June 28, 1778; encamped that summer at White Plains, N. Y., 
and wintered 1778-1779 at Redding, Conn. In the summer of 1779 he 
served on the east side of the Hudson; wintered at Morristown, N. J., 
1779-1780 ; and the next summer served on the Hudson, and wintered at 
Camp Connecticut Village. In the formation of 1781-1783, he was First 
Lieutenant in Capt. Chamberlain 's company, and served till the end of 
the war. He was a member of the order of the Cincinnati, and after- 
ward received a pension. Israel Hubbard, born 1725, died 1817. He 
was a member of the First Massachusetts Provincial Congress at Salem, 
October 7, 1774, and of the Congress at Watertown, May 31, 1775, and 
was a member of the General Court in 1776, 1777, 1780, 1782 and 1783. 

9393 68 

FRANK COOKE ATHERTON, Honolulu; born in Honolulu, July 1, 

1877; admitted 1898. 

Joseph Ballard Athertoni=Juliette Montague Cooke. 

Descended from Col. Joseph Piatt Cooke, Capt. Caleb Montague, Capt. 

Thomas Starr, and Israel Hubbard. (See record of Charles Henry 

Atherton. 
14632 82 

CHARLES JONATHAN AUSTIN, horticulturist, Waialua, Oahu; born in 

Hilo, Hawaii, November 2, 1865; admitted July, 1906. 

Stafford L. Austin=Caroline H. Clark. 

Ephraim Wesson Clark=Mary Kittredge. 

Edward 67arfc=Elizabeth Wesson. 

Ephraim JFesson=Sarah Proctor. 

Also: 

Ephraim Wesson Clark=Mary Kittredge. 

Josiah Kittredge=Mary Baker. 

Solomon Kittredge. 



Sons of the American Revolution. 55 

Edward Clark was born in Vermont, November 9, 1759, and died in 
Caledonia Co., Vt., in 1840. He served through the Revolutionary War 
as a private soldier in Capt. Port 's company, Col. Hubbard 's regiment ; 
also in Capt. Thomas Pry's company, under Col. Moses Hazen, and in 
the so-called Congress Regiment. He was wounded at the siege of York- 
town by a stray shell, and carried from the field. In course of time he 
recovered, and lived to be eighty years old. Solomon Kittredge was a 
private in the New Hampshire Militia. Ephraim Wesson was a member 
of the Committee of Safety and of the New Hampshire Provincial 
Congress. 
18937 112 

JOSEPHUS CARLYLE AXTELL, Honolulu; born in Detroit, Mich, De- 
cember 26, 1850. 

Jonathan Reeve Axtell^Mary Smith. 
Silas Axtell=Elizabeth Loree. 
Henry Axtell=^'P\iebe Condict. 

Henry Axtell held the rank of major in an organization of minute 
men and was also major in the New Jersey State troops. He was born 
in Plymouth Co., Mass., March 16, 1738, and died in Mendham, N. J., 
in 1818. 

18940 115 

RAYMOND CARLYLE AXTELL, Honolulu; born in Bozeman, Montana, 
July 11, 1881. 

Josephus Carlyle Axtell=Vina Carlyle. 

Descendant of Major Henry Axtell. (See record of Josephus Carlyle 
Axtell, supra.) 

14641 91 

ERDMANN DWIGHT BALDWIN, civil engineer and surveyor, Honolulu; 

born in Lahaina, Maui, December 9, 1859. 

David Dwight Baldwin:^Lois G. Morris. 

Rev. Dwight Baldwin=Charlotte Fowler. 

Descendant of Abial Baldwin, Josiah Fowler, and William Douglas. 

(See record of Williain Douglas Alexander.) 

4685 35 

SIDNEY MILLER BALLOU, lawyer, Washington, D. C; born in Provi- 
dence, R. I., October 24, 1870; admitted February, 1896. 

Oren Aldrich Ballou:=:Charlotte Hitchcock Miller. 

Edward F. Miller=Louisa Hitchcock. 

Luke Hitchcock=:Charlotte Jencks. 

Eleazar Je?icfes=Silence Shaw. 

Eleazar Jencks served as captain of Rhode Island troops in Col. John 

Matthewson's regiment, August, 1778. He was major in First Regiment 

of Providence Co., R. I., in 1779, and lieutenant-colonel in 1780. 
18939 114 

BERNHARD RUDOLF BANNING, 2434 Hillside avenue, Oakland, Cal.; 

born in Honolulu, Hawaii, January 10, 1868; admitted October, 1907. 

Frederick Banning=Clarissa Armstrong. 

Rev. Richard Armstrong=:Clarissa Chapman. 

Samuel Chapman=Hannah Ferguson. 

Bev. Benjamin C/iopman= Abigail Riggs. 

Also: 

Samuel Chapman=:Hannah Ferguson. 

John Ferguson=DoTothy Hamilton. 

John Hamilton=zSaTa,h. 



56 Hawaiian Society 

Benjamin Chapman of Connecticut was a patriot and a preacher; his 
sons served as soldiers, and the eldest died of camp fever. John Fer- 
guson, born 1740, at Blandford, Mass., died in 1792, at Blandford; was 
captain of a company of minute men in Col. Timothy Danielson's regi- 
ment at the Lexington Alarm. He was also captain in Col. Samuel 
Brewer's regiment sent to reinforce the Continental Army at Ticon- 
deroga in 1777. John Hamilton was captain in 1776 in Col. John Mosley 's 
Third Hampshire County Eegiment, Massachusetts Militia in a detach- 
ment sent under Lieut. -Col. Timothy Eobinson to reinforce the Conti- 
nental Army at Ticonderoga. 
18947 122 

JAMES BICKNELL, Auditor City and County of Honolulu; born May 26, 
1869, at Kohala, Hawaii; admitted 1908. 
James Bicknell=:Ellen Mariner Bond. 
Eev. Elias Bond=Ellen Mariner Howell. 
Elias Bond=Rebecca Davis. 
Col. William Bond=^'L\iej Brown. 

Col. William Bond was born February 17, 1733, and died August 31, 
1776. He was lieutenant-colonel under Col. Thomas Gardner, who was 
mortally wounded in the battle of Bunker Hill. After that event, he 
succeeded to the command of the regiment (which in November, 1775, 
was designated as the Twenty-fifth Regiment of the Continental Army), 
in Gen. Greene's brigade, which was stationed at Prospect Hill. In 
March, Col. Bond's regiment marched to New York, and afterward was 
ordered to Canada, forming part of the detachment ordered thither by 
way of Lake Champlain. He returned from Canada, with his regiment 
greatly weakened by disease and death, and encamped on Mt. Inde- 
pendence, opposite Ticonderoga. He had just received a furlough, when 
he was taken with typhoid fever, and died, being buried with military 
honors. 
9387 62 

BENJAMIN D. BOND, M. D., Kohala, Hawaii; born in Kohala, January 
21, 1853; admitted January, 1898. 
Eev. Elias Bond=:Ellen Mariner Howell. 
Elias Bond=Eebecea Davis. 

Col. William Bond==Lucy Brown. (See record of James Bicknell.) 
4688 38 

ELIAS COENELIUS BOND, Honolulu; born in Kohala, Hawaii, May 21, 
1846; admitted February, 1896. 
Eev. Elias Bond=Ellen Mariner Howell 

Descendant of Col. William Bond. (See record of James Bicknell.) 
20404 129 

CHARLES LEWIS BOSSON, San Francisco; born in Boston, Mass., June 
3, 1874; admitted January, 1909. 
George ihompson Bosson=Laura J. Josselyn, 
Charles P. Bosson=Elizabeth S. Hobbs. 
Daniel Hobbs= 
Jacoi Hoibs= 

Jacob Hobbs was one of eight brothers, who all enlisted in the Eevo- 
lutionary Army from Topsfield, N. H. They lived in Hudson, Notting- 
ham and Londonderry, N. H. He enlisted in Capt. Philip Thomas' com- 
pany. Col. James Eeade's regiment, April 30, 1775, and served three 
years and nine months. He was also in Capt. John Calfe 's company, 
Col. T. Bartlett's regiment, serving in New York State. In 1825, he 
was one of the surviving soldiers of the Eevolutionary War present when 
the cornerstone of Bunker Hill Monument was laid. 



Sons of the American Revolution. 57 

18948 123 

iSAIAH BRAY, Pilot U. S. Marine Service, Honolulu; born in Chelsea, 

Mass.; admitted May 26, 1908. 

Jeremiah Bray=Jane G. Gould. 

Isaiah Bray=Thankful Hallet. 
William Bray^Hannsih O 'Kelly. 

William Bray was born December 18, 1729, in Yarmouth, Mass., and 

died August 22, 1805 ; was a private in Capt. Crowell 's company. Col. 

Nathaniel Freeman 's regiment, of Massachusetts, called out on an alarm 

at Dartmouth and Falmouth in September, 1778. 
4672 22 

WALTER HALL BROMLEY, engineer, Honolulu; born in San Francisco, 

March 19, 1863; admitted June, 1895. 

Washington Lafayette Bromley=Abby Scribner. 

Lewis Bromley=Ann Catherine Jones. 

John Bromley=Eliza Palmer. 

William Bromley 2d= 

William Bromley lst::= 

William Bromley 1st was born in Connecticut in 1719, and died in 

Danbury, Vt., in 1803. He was town clerk of Danby, Vt., 1776-1780; 

member of the Committee of Safety in 1777; Selectman in 1781; and 

Town Treasurer 1783-1785. Williafn Bromley 2d was a private soldier 

in the Revolutionary War. 
14627 77 

WILLIAM WOODWORTH BRUNER, 180 Perry street, Oakland, Cal.; 

born in San Francisco, December 1, 1864 ; admitted February 10, 1902. 

William Hopperset Bruner=Jane Woodworth. 

John Bruner::=Maria Jones. 

David Jones=:Hannah Graham. 

Jonathan Jones=Margaret Davis. 

Lieut.-Col. Jonathan Jones was born November, 1738, in Chester Co., 

Pa., and died September 26, 1782. He was lieutenant-colonel Third Bat- 
talion Berks Co., Pa., Militia. 

138 
IRA DAY PARSONS CANFIELD, electrician, Honolulu; born in Renora, 

Pa., May 13, 1882. 

Ira Day Canfield=Mary Elizabeth Parsons. 

Joseph Parsons=Ann Eliza Fribley. 

William Parsons=Catharine Collins. 

Thomas Collins=E\izaheth Pulate. 

Also: 

William Parsons=Catharine Collins. 

Stephen Parsons=E\eanoT Macllraine. 

Also: 

Ira Day Canfield^Mary Elizabeth Parsons. 

Ira Day Canfield=Susannah Antes. 

Frederick Antes:=J^ane Holt. 

Philip Antes=Susanna Williams. 

Capt. Henry Antes=Anna Maria Paulin, 

Thomas Collins was born in Pennsylvania, and died in Womelsdorf, 

Pa., in 1807. He was a private in the Second Pennsylvania Regiment, 

Continental line, and one of Washington's picked men who crossed the 

Delaware to attack the Hessians at the battle of Trenton; was also at 

Princeton, Brandywine, and Germantown, and in camp at Valley Forge 

in the winter of 1777-8, and remained with the army until the close of 



58 Hawaiian Society 

the war. Stephen Parsons was born in England. He was a private in 
the Essex County, New Jersey, Militia. Capt. Henry Antes was born in 
Pottstown, Pa., October 5, 1736, and died in Fort Antes, Lycoming Co., 
Pa., May 13, 1820. He was captain of the Eighth Company of the As- 
sociators of Northampton Co., Pa., January 24, 1776, and of the First 
Company, Third Battalion, March 13, 1776, and had command of the 
Associators on the frontier. The stockade he built was called Antes Fort. 

4655 5 

GEORGE ROBERT CARTER, Honolulu; born in Honolulu, December 28, 
1866; admitted June, 1895. 

Henry Alfred Pierce Carter^Sybil Augusta Judd. 
Gerrit Parmele Judd:^Laura Fish. 
Elias Fish=rSybil Williams. 
Samuel Williams==HaTinah Powers. 
Also : 

Dr. Gerrit Parmele Judd=Laura Fish. 
Elnathan Judd=Elizabeth Hastings. 
Elnathan Judd, born 1724= 
Capt. Thomas Judd of Westbury, Conn. 

Samuel Williams of Groton, Conn., served as lieutenant in the Tenth 
Company of Continentals from May 1 to December 18, 1775. He was 
afterward second lieutenant in Capt. Asa Bray's company of Col. Hooker's 
regiment of militia, from April 3 to May 3, 1777. Capt. Thomas Judd 
of Westbury, Conn., was a captain of the militia, and representative in 
the General Court of Connecticut many sessions. 

9385 60 

GEORGE PARMELE CASTLE, president Castle & Cooke, Ltd., Honolulu; 
born in Honolulu, April 29, 1851; admitted May, 1897. 
Samuel Northrup Castle=Mary C. Tenney. 
Levi Tenney=Mary Ann Kingsbury. 
Jesse Tenney^=llannah Griswold. 

Jesse Tenney was born in Norwich, Conn., April 20, 1741, and died in 
Sudbury, Vt., January 8, 1815. He served in 1780 and 1781 in Capt. 
Joseph Saflford and Capt. Robinson 's companies, and is said to have 
served under Gen. Stark in the battle of Bennington. 

9378 53 

WILLIAM RICHARDS CASTLE, lawyer, Honolulu; born in Honolulu, 
March 19, 1849; admitted January 15, 1897. 
Samuel Northrup Castle=Mary C. Tenney. 
Levi Tenney=:Mary Ann Kingsbury. 
Jesse Ten7iey=}lannah Griswold. 
(See record of George Parmele Castle.) 

4683 33 

WARREN CHAMBERLAIN, Honolulu; born in Honolulu, July 17, 1829; 
admitted February, 1896. 
Levi Chamberlain=Maria Patton. 
Joseph Cha7nberlain=-Lin(ij Whitney. 
Wilson Chamberlai7i=Y,lizabeth Austin. 
Also: 

Joseph Chamberlain:=L\iej Whitney. 
Lieut. Jesse Whitney= 



Sons of the American Revolution. 59 

Wilson Chamberlain, born in 1724, was a private soldier in Capt. Ben 
Eichardson 's company, Col. Dyke 's regiment, in service at Dorchester 
Heights near Boston, in 1776. His houses and property were destroyed 
in the burning of Charlestown, and his wife and children escaped to 
Maiden, Mass. His name also appears on the roll of Capt. Sam Hub- 
bard's company. Col. Job Cushing 's regiment, in 1777. He marched on 
the alarm to Bennington, Vt. Enlisted August 18, 1777, discharged 
October 30, 1777. He died at HoUiston, Mass., June 23, 1791. Joseph 
Chamberlain was born December 27, 1762, in Charlestown, Mass., and 
died August 21, 1800, at Dover, Vt. He enlisted in Westborough, Mass., 
December 2, 1780, for three years' service. In January, 1783, he was in 
the Fifth Massachusetts Eegiment, stationed at Camp New Windsor, 
north of New York City, and continued in the service until the close of 
the war. Lieut. Jesse Whitney was a lieutenant in the Fourth Company 
of Mendon, Mass., Capt. Gershom Nelson. He marched to Lexington 
on the day of the alarm. He was engaged in military service in Eastern 
Massachusetts and Ehode Island, from 1775 to 1779. He resigned from 
the service November 16, 1779. 

4684 34 

WILLIAM WAEEEN CHAMBEELAIN, clerk, Honolulu; born in Hono- 
lulu, February 13, 1873; admitted February, 1896. (See record of hia 

father, Warr«n Chamberlain, No. 33.) 
9398 73 

EENEST BEOOKS CLAEK, clerk, Honolulu; born in Oakland, Cal., Sep- 
tember 7, 1877; admitted February, 1900. 

Charles Kittredge Clark=Harriett Howell. 

Ephraim W. Clark=Mary Kittredge. 

Edward C2arfc=Elizabeth Wesson. 

Descendant of Edward Clark, Ephraim Wesson and Solomon Kittredge. 

(See record of Charles Jonathan Austin.) 

137 
HAEEIE CUTLEE COBUEN, manager Kauai Eailway Co., Eleele, Hawaii; 

born May 26, 1882, in Brooklyn, Conn.; admitted February 6, 1911. 

J. Milton Coburn, M. L.=Abbie M. Cutler. 

Aaron G. Cutler^Lucy F. Nourse. 

Ebenezer Cutler=:Milly Blake. 

Ebeneser Cutler=Eliza.heth. Brown. 

Ebenezer Cutler was a private in Massachusetts troops under Col. 

Sproat. 
4670 20 

AMOS FEANCIS COOKE, President Palolo Land and Improvement Com- 
pany, Honolulu; born in Honolulu, December 23, 1851; admitted June, 

1895. 

Amos Starr Cooke=:Juliette Montague. 

Descendant of Col. Joseph Piatt Coolce, Capt. Caleb Montague, Capt. 

Thomas Starr, and Israel Hubbard. (See record of Charles Henry 

Atherton.) 
9389 64 

CLAEENCE HYDE COOKE, President Bank of Hawaii, Honolulu; born 

in Honolulu, April 17, 1876; admitted March, 1898. 

Charles Montague Cooke=Anna Charlotte Eice. 

Amos Starr Cooke=Juliette Montague. 

Descendant of Col. Joseph Piatt Coolce, Capt. Caleb Montague, Capt. 

Thomas Starr, and Israel Hubbard. (See record of Charles Henry 

Atherton.) 



60 Hawaiian Society 

14635 85 

GEORGE PAUL COOKE, Manager American Sugar Co., Kaunakakai, 

Molokai; born in Honolulu, December 2, 1881; admitted August 9, 1906. 

Charles Montague Cooke=Anna Charlotte Rice. 

Amos Starr Cooke=Juliette Montague. 

Descendant of Col. Joseph Piatt Cooke, Capt. Caleb Montague, Capt. 

Thomas Starr, and Israel Hubbard. (See record of Charles Henry 

Atherton.) 
18928 103 

JOSEPH PL ATT COOKE, Manager Alexander & Baldwin, Honolulu; 

born December 15, 1870, at Honolulu; admitted April 26, 1907. 

Joseph Piatt Cooke=:H. Emily Wilder. 

Amos Starr Cooke==Juliette Montague. 

Descendant of Col. Joseph Piatt Cooke, Capt. Caleb Montague, Capt. 

Thomas Starr, and Israel Hubbard. (See record of Charles Henry 

Atherton.) 
9386 61 

CHARLES BRYANT COOPER, M.D., Honolulu; born in Babylon, N. Y., 

November 19, 1864; admitted November, 1897. 

Rev. Charles White Cooper=Sarah Frances Duyckinck. 

James Duyckincki=Mary Post. 

John Duyckinck=Mary Meyer. 

Gen. Andrew McMeyer=M.arj 

Gen. Andrew McMires or McMeyer (the Mc was afterward dropped), 

was born in Scotland, and was killed in the battle of Germantown, 

October 4, 1777. He had settled in New Jersey. When the War of In- 
dependence broke out he entered the Continental Army as Captain in the 

First Regiment of New Jersey troops, December 15, 1775, and on the 

29th of November, 1776, was promoted for bravery in the field to the 

rank of General. As above stated, he fell at the head of his brigade in 

the battle of Germantown. 
18927 102 

SAMUEL MILLS DAMON, Banker, Honolulu; born in Honolulu, March 

13, 1845; admitted April 26, 1907. 

Rev. Samuel Chenery Damon=Julia Sherman Mills. 

Samuel Damon=Alony Chenery. 

Isaac Chenery^Susannah Peirce. 

Also: 

Samuel Damon=Alony Chenery. 

Samuel Damon=Abigail Penniman. 

James Pennim an=Ahigail 

Dr. Isaac Chenery was born in Medfield, Mass., November, 1742, and 

died in Holdon, Mass., October 20, 1822. He was surgeon in Capt. Jos. 

Davis' Company of Minute Men, Massachusetts, and surgeon in Col. 

Nathaniel Wade's Massachusetts Regiment. James Penniman was born 

in 1734, and died March 17, 1804, in Medway, Mass. He was a corporal 

in the Massachusetts Militia. 
14634 84 

GEN. EDWARD DAVIS, Brigadier-General, U. S. A., retired, Honolulu; 

born in Louisville, Ky., July 7, 1845; admitted August 5, 1906. 

Benjamin Outram Davis=:Susan Fry Speed. 

John Speed=Lucy Gilmer Fry. 

Lieut. James Speed= 

Lieut. James Speed was a lieutenant in Cocke's Virginia Militia Regi- 
ment, and was wounded at Guilford, March 15, 1781. 



Sons of the American Revolution. 61 

14649 99 

CHARLES HENRY DICKEY, Lawyer, Honolulu; born August 12, 1842, 

at Ottawa, 111.; admitted February 20, 1907. 

Theophilus Lyle Dickey=Juliet Evans. 

Rev. James Henry Diekey=Mary Depew, 

Bobert Dickey=M.arj Henry. 

James IIenry=Agnes Mitchell. 

Also: 

Rev. James Henry Dickey=:Mary Depew. 

Samuel Depew=Mary Rose. 

John i>e2^ew=Catharine Shepherd. 

Also: 

Samuel Depew=Mary Rose. 

Capt. Alexander Bose= 

Also : 

Theophilus Lyle Dickey=Juliet Evans. 
Isaac Evans==J^ane P. Morton. 
John Morton=Margaret Alexander. 
James Alexander=Ma.Tj Peden. 

Bobert Dickey was born in Albemarle Co., Va., November 25, 1745; 
died at South Salem, Ohio, May 21, 1817. He was a member of the 
Second South Carolina Provincial Congress, 1775-6, and was a light 
horseman in Capt. Thos. Kirkpatrick 's company in Col. Wm. Bratton's 
South Carolina regiment, and served with the wagon team as driver. 
James Henry enlisted November 4, 1775, in the Second South Carolina 
Regiment under Lieut. -Col. Marion, and enlisted March 25, 1776, in the 
Sixth South Carolina Regiment. John Depew was born in 1726, in Lud- 
low, England, and died April 21, 1811, in Botetourt Co., Va. He was an 
artificer in Capt. Henry Heth's Independent Company of Virginia troops, 
stationed at Fort Pitt in 1777 and 1778. Capt. Alexander Bose was a 
lieutenant in the Sixth Virginia, March 4, 1776, and was made captain 
in the Seventeenth Virginia in September, 1776. James Alexander was 
born in Ballymena, Ireland, and died in Fairview, South Carolina, about 
1805. He was a recognized patriot, and had four sons who were sol- 
diers in the revolutionary cause. He was taken prisoner, chained to a 
cart and dragged forty-two miles in two days, the driver being ordered 
to whip him whenever he leaned on the cart to rest. At the siege of 
Augusta, Ga., he was placed, with other prisoners, in a bastion of Fort 
Cornwallis that was most exposed to the fire of the American batteries, 
one of which was manned by his own sons, thus being exposed to being 
killed by his own children. 
4696 46 

LYLE ALEXANDER DICKEY, Lavsr^er, Honolulu; born March 26, 1868, 
at Whitehall, 111.; admitted May 6, 1896. 
Charles Henry Dickey=Ann Elizabeth Alexander. 
Rev. William Patterson Alexander=Mary Ann McKinney. 

Descendant of Bobert Dickey, James Henry, John Depew, Capt. Alex- 
ander Bose, James Alexander, Col. William Chambers, and Mordecai Mc- 
Kinney. (See records of Charles Henry Dickey and William DeWitt 
Alexander.) 
4657 7 

FRANK STANWOOD DODGE, Civil Engineer, Honolulu; born in Beverly, 
Mass, October 31, 1854; admitted June, 1895. ) 

Jonathan Stanwood Dodge=Charlotte Proctor Allen. 
William Allen 2d=Harriet Lee. 

William Allen lst= Hooper. 

William Allen 1st was born in Manchester, Mass., in 1750. He enlisted 
in the town militia in July, 1775, and served in the siege of Boston. 



62 Hawaiian Society 

18945 120 

WILLIAM LEWIS EATON, collector, Honolulu; born July 14, 1848, at 

Waukegan, 111.; admitted December 18, 1907. 

Jeremiah Eaton:=Huldah Howard. 

Jeduthan Eaton^Nancy Stone. 

David Eaton= 

David Eaton was born August 4, 1738, and died in 1808. He was a 

private in Capt. Oliver Shattuck's company in the regiment commanded 

by Lieut. -Col. Barnabas Sears of Hampshire Co., Mass., militia, in 1781. 

4658 8 
JOHN EFFINGER, merchant, Honolulu; born in Peru, Indiana, April 1, 

1861 ; admitted June, 1895. 

Robert Patterson Effinger^Frances Ann Barbour. 

Samiiel EflSnger=:Mary Noble. 

Ca2}t. John Ignatius von Effingei-=Cat\ierine Spatzer. 

Capt. John Ignatius von Effinger was bom in Mannheim, Germany, 
December 1, 1756, and died at Woodstock, Virginia, August 31, 1839. 
He came to America with the troops of Hesse-Cassel, but immediately 
after his arrival, "fired with the love of liberty," he joined the Amer- 
ican army. He enlisted in 1778 as corporal in Capt. Bartholomew von 
Heer's Troop of Light Dragoons, when Washington was in winter quar- 
ters on the Schuylkill river in Pennsylvania, and served till the end of 
the war, August, 1783. He became a captain in the Corps of Life 
Guards, immediately attached to the person of Washington. 
93/6 . 51 

WALLACE RIDER FARRINGTON, Editor, Honolulu; born in Orono, 
Maine, May 3, 1871; admitted September, 1896. 
Joseph Rider Farrington=Ellen Elizabeth Holyoke. 
Oliver Farrington=Hannah Rider. 
John Farrington ^d=Cynthia Hawes. 

John Farrington Sd enlisted as a private soldier in the Revolutionary 
War, from Massachusetts, and served for three or more years in the 
latter part of the war. He died September 30, 1843. 

4659 9 
WILLIAM JOSEPH FORBES, accountant, Honolulu; born in Honolulu, 

October 8, 1866; admitted June, 1896. 

Anderson O. Forbes=Maria Jane Chamberlain. 

Levi Chamberlain::=Maria Patton. 

Joseph Chamherlain='L\\cy Whitney. 

Descendant" of Joseph Chamberlain, Wilson Chamberlain, and Lieut. 

Jesse Whitney. (See record of Warren Chamberlain.) 
20409 134 

ROWLAND JAY GREENE, Honolulu; born in Brookfield, N. Y., Novem- 
ber 16, 1836; admitted August 5, 1909. 

Rev. John Greene=Elizabeth Wells. 

Capt. John Greenez^iPrudence Saunders. 

Capt. John Greene was born in Hopkinton, R. I., and died in Hopkin- 

ton, R. I., in March, 1830. He was a captain in Col. Joseph Noye's Regi- 
ment of Militia of Rhode Island. 
14642 92 

EDWIN OSCAR HALL, Bangor, Maine; born in Honolulu, May 30, 1881; 

admitted October 29, 1906. 

William Wisner Hall^Elizabeth Archer Van Cleve. 

Edwin Oscar Hallr=:Sarah Lyons Williams. 

Owen Hall:=Sophia Sibley. 

Asa Sibleyr=Irene Carpenter. 

Col. Timothy Sibley=Annie Waite. 



Sons of the American Revolution. 63 

Also: 

William Wisner Hall^Elizabeth Archer Van Cleve. 

Horatio Phillips Van Cleve=Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark. 

Major Nathan Clarkr=Charlotte Ann Seymour. 

Ca^jt. Thomas Young Seymour=^Susa.n Bull. 

Lieut.-Col. TJiomas Seymour=MaTj Ledyard. 

Col. Timothy Sibley was born in Sutton, Mass., November 2, 1727, and 
died in the same place December 6, 1818. He was a Colonel ia the Eevo- 
lutionary War; member of Committee of Safety in Sutton, 1776; Select- 
man, 1781-2, 1791-2 ; Assessor, Representative in the Legislature, 1786- 
1793, and many times Moderator. Lieut.-Col. Thomas Seymour was born 
at Hartford, Conn., 1735, and died at Hartford, 1829. He was appointed 
by the Assembly in 1776 as Lieut.-Col. of Light Horse. Cai)t. Thomas 
Young Seymour was born at Hartford, Conn., in 1757, and died in 1817. 
He was captain of Sheldon 's Dragoons at Saratoga, and after the sur- 
render was escort to Burgoyne. 
9380 . 55 

WILLIAM LEWERS HOPPER, business manager, Honolulu; born in New 
York City, February 20, 1856; admitted January, 1897. 
James Alexander Hopper=Ellen Lewers. 
James Manwaring Hopper=Mary Falkner. 
Jacob Hopper=Lydia Manwaring. 
John Mantvaring=Ljdia Plumb. 

John Manwaring enlisted in the Revolutionary Army from New Lon- 
don, Conn., and was killed in battle at West Point, N. Y., February 22, 
1782. 

14644 94 

PERLEY LEONARD HORNE, President Kamehameha Schools, Honolulu; 
born at Topeka, Kan., December 30, 1866; admitted December 1, 1906. 
John Blake Horne=Mary White Tay. 
Samuel Horne=Lydia Ham Blake. 
William Blake=Elizabeth Wingate. 
Col. Joshua Wingate=Ahigai\ Roberts. 
Also: 

Samuel Horne=:Lytiia Ham Blake. 
Otis Horne=Mary Coffin. 
Abner Co^tH=Keziah Cromwell. 
Also: 

William Blake:=:Elizabeth Wingate. 
William Blake=Betsej Taylor. 
Also: 

Otis Horne=Mary Coffin. 
Ichibod Horne=Sarah Baker. 
Col. Otis Baker=Ljdia Wentworth. 

Col. Joshua Wingate was born in Dover, N. H., July 28, 1725, and died 
in Littleworth, N. H., February 9, 1796. August 24, 1775, he was ap- 
pointed First Major of the Second New Hampshire Regiment. Septem- 
ber 1, 1775, the twelve New Hampshire Regiments were consolidated into 
four, and he was made Colonel of the First New Hampshire Regiment. 
November 2, 1775, he was at Fort Sullivan, Leavey's Island, and No- 
vember 8 was appointed to command 500 men raised for the defense of 
the forts on the Piscataqua river. In 1776 he was appointed Colonel of 
the Second New Hampshire Regiment, raised to reinforce Gen. Sullivan, 
who was to repel the enemy coming from Canada. Col. Wingate marched 
to Ticonderoga, and was stationed at Mt. Independence. In 1778 he led 



64 Hawaiian Society 

a regiment, partly of Madbury men, in the Ehode Island expedition under 
Gen. Sullivan. He was a representative from Dover in 1781 to the 
Second Constitutional Convention. Abater Coffin was born in New 
Hampshire, April 25, 1738. He was a private in Col. Badger's regiment, 
under Col. Baker; also in the Eochester, N. H., company of Col. Sar- 
gent's regiment, under Capt. Willey. William Blake was born in Epsom, 
N. H., in 1741, and died at Wakefield, N. H. He was a private in Capt. 
Daniel Gordon 's company. Col. David Gilman''s regiment, and was pro- 
moted to sergeant. Col. Otis Baker was born in 1726, and died October 
27, 1801. He was chosen December 21, 1775, a representative to the 
Eevolutionary Legislature of New Hampshire, at Exeter, which resolved 
itself into an independent state government and elected him one of the 
judges of the Court of Common Pleas, which office he held until 1785, 
when he was elected a state senator. He was one of the New Hamp- 
shire Committee of Safety from 1776 to 1777, and he succeeded Col. 
John Wentworth of Somersworth in command of the old Second New 
Hampshire Eegiment. 
9390 65 

CHAELES HUSTACE, JE., Honolulu; born in Makawao, Maui, August 
25, 1863; admitted March, 1898. 
Cnarles Hustace, Sen.=Louise Frances Bolles. 
David Hustace=Lucretia Grace Hempstead. 
Daniel B. Hempstead=Grace Lanpheer. 

James La7ipheer= Salstonstall. 

Also: 

Daniel Booth Hempstead=Grace Lanpheer. 

Samuel Booth Hempstead= 

Captain James Lanpheer was born in 1748. During the Eevolutionary 
War he was sailing master of the frigate ' ' Trumbull, ' ' built at Nor- 
wich, Conn., which was commanded by James Nicholson, and was cap- 
tured by the ' ' Gen. Monk ' ' and the ' ' Iris ' '' off the Capes of Delaware 
in August, 1781. He had also commanded a privateer, and about three 
weeks before New London was taken and burned in 1781, he had cap- 
tured and brought into that port an East Indiaman, with a valuable 
cargo, consisting of blankets, woolen goods, etc. His house, together 
with the rich booty which it contained, was burned by the order of 
Benedict Arnold. Samuel Booth Hempstead was born in 1755. On the 
6th of September, 1781, when the British army under Gen. Benedict 
Arnold attacked New London, he was stationed in the redoubt near Fort 
Trumbull, which was attacked by the enemy at their first landing. In 
this engagement young Hempstead was wounued in the hip and carried 
home by four comrades. He never recovered entirely from the effect of 
this wound. 
20411 136 

EDWIN AUSTIN JONES, clerk, C. Brewer & Co., Honolulu; born at Hono- 
lulu, September 8, 1889 ; admitted September, 1910. 
Edwin Austin Jones=:Isabelle Fuller. 
Peter Cushman Jones=Cornelia Hall. 
Peter Cushman Jones=Jane Mcintosh Baldwin. 
Josiah Baldwin=Jane Mcintosh. 
Capt. Isaac Baldwin=Exiniee Jennison. 
Also: 

Josiah Baldwin=Jane Mcintosh. . 
Peter McI ntosh=Zihhie Headon. 
Also : 

Peter Cushman Jones=Cornelia Hall. 
Edwin Oscar Hall=Sarah Lyons Williams. 

A descendant of Col. Timothy Sibley. (See record of Edwin Oscar 
Hall). 



Sons of the American Revolution. 65 

Capt. Isaac Baldwin was born in Sudbury, in 1736. He served with 
Stark in the French and Indian wars, in which he is said to have fought 
in twenty battles. As soon as he heard of the battles of Lexington and 
Concord, he formed a company of volunteers in Hillsborough, N. H., and 
hastened to the front. He arrived there in time to take part in the battle 
of Bunker Hill, in which he fell mortally wounded, at the head of his 
company. His name appears on the Bunker Hill bronze tablet facing 
Winthrop Square, Boston. Peter Mcintosh was Dorn October 6, 1756, at 
Boston, and died there November 23, 1846. He was an active member 
of the ' ' Sons of Liberty ' ' in Boston, and was employed in the Conti- 
nental Army as a gunsmith, etc., 1776 to 1780. 
4663 (Formerly No. 123, California State Society) 13 

JOHN WALTER JONES, stenographer, Honolulu; born in San Fran- 
cisco, September 1, 1866 ; admitted June, 1895. 
Harrison Jones^Isabella Murray Davies. 
Harrison Jones=Elizabeth Vaughan. 
John Claiborne Vaughan=Mary Clack. 
Dr. Claiborne Vaughan= 

Dr. Claiborne Vaughan was surgeon's mate in the Sixth Virginia 
Regiment, commissioned November 1, 1776, and transferred to the Con- 
tinental Dragoons in 1779. He was retained in Baylor 's Regiment of 
Dragoons, November, 1782, and served in it to the close of the war. 
860 (Formerly No. 259 Massachusetts State Society) 12 

PETER CUSHMAN JONES, Banker, Honolulu; born at Boston, Mass., 
December 10, 1837; admitted June, 1895. 

Descendant of Col. Isaac Baldwin and Peter Mcintosh. (See record 
of Edwin Austin Jones.) 
9379 54 

ALBERT FRANCIS JUDD, Lawyer, Honolulu; born in Honolulu, De- 
cember 20, 1874; admitted January, 1897. 
Hon. Albert Francis Judd=Agnes Hall Boyd. 
Gerrit Parmele Judd=Laura Fish. 
Elias Fish=:Sybil Williams. 
Lieut. Samuel William s=Jlannah Powers. 
Also: 

Gerrit Parmele Judd=Laura Fish. 
Elnathan Judd=:Betsey Hastings. 
Elnathan Judd=: 

Capt. Thomas Judd of Westbury, Conn. 
(See record of George Robert Carter.) 
Also: 

Hon. Albert Francis Judd^Agnes Hall Boyd. 
Rev. James Robert Boydr=Elizabeth Moseley Camp. 
Col. Elisha Camp=Sophia Hale. 
Col. Geo. Hale=Hope Moseley. 
Capt. Jonathan ifaZe^Elizabeth Welles. 
Also: 

Col. Geo. Hale=Hope Moseley. 
Abner Moseley^ 
Joseph Mosely= 

Captain Jonathan Hale was born in 1718, in Glastonbury, Conn. He 
served as captain of the Sixth Company of Col. Erastus Wolcott's regi- 
ment during the siege of Boston. He died March 7, 1776, when with the 
army at Jamaica Plains, Roxbury, Mass. Joseph Moseley served under 
Col. Gay in 1776. He was afterward in the Seventh Company of the 
Second Battalion under Col. James Wadsworth. 



66 Hawaiian Society 

20406 131 

EEV. HENEY PRATT JUDD, pastor, Kahului, Hawaii; born iu Albany, 

N. Y., March 15, 1880; admitted June 8, 1909. 

Albert Francis Judd=Agnes Hall Boyd. 

Descendant of Capt. Thomas Judd, Lieut. Samuel Williams, Capt. 

Jonathan Hale, and Joseph Moseley. (See records of George Robert 

Carter and Albert Francis Judd.) 

18938 113 

DR. JAMES ROBERT JUDD, surgeon, Honolulu; born in Honolulu, May 

20, 1876; admitted September 5, 1907. 

Albert Francis Judd=Agnes Hall Boyd. 

Descendant of Capt. Thomas Judd, Lieut. Samuel Williams, Capt. 

Jonathan Hale, and Joseph Moseley. (See records of George Robert 

Carter and Albert Francis Judd.) 

20401 126 

HENRY ARTHUR JUEN, Honolulu; born in Stamford, Conn., February 

14, 1865; admitted November 16, 1908. 

Henry Juen, Jr.=rEmily M. Jones. 

Reynolds Jones=Albina Allen. 

William Allen=Mercy Stevens. 

William Allen^^B^ose Wayne. 

tVilliam Allen served as a private under his brother. Col. Ethan Allen; 

was at the capture of Fort Crown Point and Fort Ticonderoga. 

9391—7312 66 

ERNEST FROTHINGHAM KING, M.D., Washington, D. C; born in 
Turner, Maine, November 29, 1858 ; admitted March, 1898, 
George Mellen Prentiss King=Mary Smith. 
Alonzo King=Miranda Prentiss. 
Samuel King=Sarah Hall. 
George E^in^^Elizabeth Shaw. 
Benjamin £^t;i^=Abiah Leonard. 

Benjamin King was a delegate to the Provincial CongreSvS and a mem- 
ber of the Committee of Safety. Five of his sons served in the War 
of the Revolution. Sergeant George King was born in Raynham, Mass., 
November 27, 1744, and died in the same place, January 16, 1827. He 
was in the Company of Minute Men commanded by Capt. James Wilham, 
Jr., w^hich marched from Taunton to Roxbury, April 20, 1775. He also 
served in Capt. Josiah Crocker's company, of Col. Carpenter's regiment, 
under Gen. Sullivan, in the Rhode Island campaign. 

14623 83 

SELDEN BINGHAM KINGSBURY, Judge Circuit Court, Second Circuit, 
Wailuku, Maui; born at Camden, Ohio, October 29, 1840; admitted 
July 20, 1906. 

Charles Bingham Kingsbury^Betsy Tennant. 
Lemuel Kingsbury=Lovic,a (Hutchins) Smith. 
Col. Benjamin Eutchins= 

Lemuel Kingsbury was born in Otis, Mass., November 20, 1759, and 
died in Wakeman, Ohio, December 20, 1844. He enlisted in the Revolu- 
tionary Army from Connecticut when a boy, and served to the end of 
the war as a private in the Eighteenth Connecticut Militia and Cornet 
Fifth Light Horse. Col. Benjamin Kutcliins served in Connecticut Militia 
at West Point in 1780. 



Sons of the American Revolution. 67 

4680 30 

Wxi^LIAM ANSEL KINNEY, Attorney, Honolulu; born in Honolulu, 
October 16, 1860; admitted October, 1895. 
William Kinney=Caroliue Dailey. 
"William Kinney=Orpah Bobbins. 
Joseph Bobbins 3rd=Hannali Eaymond. 

Joseph Bobbins Sd= Stephens. 

Joseph Eobbins Sd was born in Kingston, Mass., in 1757. He en- 
jisted in ivliddlebury, Mass., May 1, 1775, in Capt. Isaac Wood's company, 
under Col. Cotton, in Gen. Thomas' brigade, in which he served through 
the siege of Boston. In 1776 he re-enlisted in Gen. Heath's brigade for 
one year, and served in New York and New Jersey, taking part in the 
battles of Trenton and Princeton. In June, 1779, he enlisted again in 
the army under Gen. Sullivan, and served in the campaign in Western 
New York against the Indians. His name was on the Pension EoUs 
in 1838. 

14645 95 

EAYMOND HOTCHKISS LEACH, Assistant Superintendent Hawaiian 
Pineapple Company, Honolulu; born in Burton, Ohio, October 13, 1880; 
admitted December 1, 1906. 
Francisco Leachr:=Melissa San ford. 
Solomon Leach=Harriet Fowler. 
Anson Fowler=Lois Hotchkiss. 
Caleb Fowier=Mollie Chittenden. 
Jared Chittenden=^T)ehorah Stone. 
Also: 

Anson Fowler=Lois Hotchkiss. 
Isaac Hotch]ciss=^Ann Spinning. 
Also: 

Caleb Fowler=:Molly Chittenden. 
Ebenezer Fowler=:T>es\rQ Bristol. 

Caleb Fowler was born in Guilford, Conn., December 31, 1755, and died 
in Burton, Ohio, October 12, 1822. He was a private in Capt. Elijah 
Humphrey's company, Col. Wm. Douglas' regiment, and also a private 
in Capt. Daniel Hand's company. Col. Talcott's regiment. He was on 
duty that memorable Sunday at the battle of Monmouth. Out with a 
scouting party on North Eiver, he captured a musket from the British 
while they were eating breakfast, which is now in the possession of his 
grandson Caleb. Jared Chittenden was born in Guilford, Conn., August 
30, 1734, and died there February 12, 1824. He was a private in Capt. 
Daniel Hand's company. Col. Talcott's Connecticut Eegiment, in 1776. 
Isaac Hotchkiss was born in Guilford, Conn., October 7, 1756, and died 
there August 24, 1835. He was a private in Capt. Noadiah Hooker's 
company, Col. Joseph Spencer's regiment, from May 4, 1775, to October 
15, 1775; in Capt. Stephen Hall's company. Col. Herman Swift's regi- 
ment. May 26, 1777, to May 26, 1780; in Capt. Peter Vail's Company 
of Guards, stationed at Guilford for the defense of the seacoast, No- 
vember 14 to December 14, 1781. He was with Washington at Valley 
Forge. Ebenezer Fowler was born in Guilford, Conn., January 11, 1719, 
and died there February 9, 1800. He served as a private after the 
Lexington Alarm under Capt. Noah Fowler, and Ensigns John Hubbard 
and Stephen Hall forty-two days. 



68 Hawaiian Society 

9394 69 

EBENEZER PARKER LOW, Supervisor, City and County of Honolulu; 

born in Honolulu, October 4, 1864; admitted October 21, 1898. 

John Soniers Low=Martlia Parker Fuller. 

Frederick Gilman Low=Eliza Davis. 

Joshua Gee Low:=Lydia Somers. 

John Low^Sarah Gee. 

Jolm Low was Lieutenant-Colonel of the Militia Regiment from 

Gloucester, Mass., in 1775, and afterward was promoted to be Colonel. 

He was a member of the Committee of Safety; Representative 1776-1781; 

and Delegate to the Convention to Ratify the State and Federal Consti- 
tutions. 

14640 90 

JOHN STANLEY LOW, accountant, Kukuihaele, Hawaii; born in Hanalei, 
Hawaii, July 4, 1867 ; admitted September 24, 1906. 
John Somers Low^Martha Parker Fuller. 

Descendant of Lieut. -Col. John Low. (See record of Ebenezer Parker 
Low.) 
18941 116 

FREDERICK DWIGHT LOWREY, merchant, Honolulu; born in Honolulu, 
June 6, 1885; admitted November 16, 1907. 
Frederick Jewett Lowrey=:Cherilla Storrs. 
Frederick Canfield Lowrey=Alice L. Moore. 
Frederick Nathaniel Lowrey=:Charlotte Haskins. 
Dr. Nathaniel Lowrey=:Rebecca Canfield. 
Col. Samuel Canfield=E\izahet'h Judson. 
Also: 

Frederick Canfield Lowrey:^Aliee L. Moore. 
Rev. Harris Moore=Rebecca Smith. 
Jephthah Moore=Zilpah Jewett. 
Capt. Daniel Jeweii=Zilpah Hibbard. 
Also: 

Jephthah Moore=Zilpah Jewett. 
Capt. Abijah Moore=Eunice Gibbs. 

Col. Samuel Canfield was born in Milford, Conn., April 26, 1726, and 
died August 17, 1797. He was Colonel of a Regiment of Connecticut 
troops, and was stationed one winter at West Point, N. Y., under Gen. 
McDougal, 1781-2. He was a Representative in the Connecticut Legis- 
lature for about ten years, from 1769, and town clerk in Sharon, Conn., 
from 1792 till his death. Capt. Daniel Jeivett was born February 27, 
1744, and died in Putney, Vt., March 30, 1829. He was lieutenant of 
militia in a regiment from Cumberland Co., Vt., in 1776. He was after- 
ward captain of a company forming a part of the First Regiment Ver- 
mont Militia, commanded Ijy Samuel Fletcher, and fought in the battle 
of Bennington. He moved to Putney in 1773, and represented that town 
thirteen years in the State Legislature. Capt. Abijah Moore was Cap- 
tain of Militia in the Lower Regiment of Cumberland Co., Vt., commanded 
Dy Col. William Williams, in 1776. 
9384 59 

FREDERICK JEWETT LOWREY, merchant, Honolulu; born in Pittsfield, 
Mass., October 18, 1858; admitted May, 1897. 
Frederick Canfield Lowrey=Alice L. Moore. 

Descendant of Col. Samuel Canfield, Capt. Daniel Jewett, and Capt. 
Abijah Moore. (See record of Frederick Dwight Lowrey.) 



Sons of the American Revolution. 69 

18942 117 

CLARENCE KUMUKOA LYMAN, Second Lieutenant, 4th U. S. Cavalry ; 

born in Hamakua, Hawaii, February 28, 1882 ; admitted December 6, 1907. 

Eufus Anderson Lyman=Rebecca A. Brickwood. 

David Belden Lyman=Sarah Joiner, 

David Lyman:=:Rhoda P. Belden. 

David Lyman= 

David Lyman was born and died in Tollingford, Conn., and was a 

lieutenant in the First Connecticut Militia, and was honorably discharged 

to run a grist mill in New Hartford for the supply of the revolutionary 

troops. 
14650 100 

EUGENE HOLLIS LYMAN, Manager Pacific Soda Works, Hilo, Hawaii; 

born in Hilo, Hawaii, January 5, 1876; admitted April 1, 1907. 

Rufus Anderson Lyman^Rebecca A. Brickwood. 

Descendant of Lieut. David Lyman. (See record of Clarence Kumu- 

koa Lyman.) 
Ibj26 101 

FREDERICK SNOWDEN LYMAN, pineapple grower, Maunawai, Oahu; 

born in Honolulu, May 7, 1863; admitted April 17, 1907. 

Frederick Swartz Lyman=Isabella Chamberlain. 

David Belden Lyman::=Sarah Joiner. 

Levi Chamberlain=Maria Patten. 

Descendant of Lieut. David Lyman, Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph 

Chamberlain, and Lieut. Jesse Whitney. (See records of Clarence Ku- 

mukoa Lyman and Warren Chamberlain.) 
4668 18 

CURTIS JERE LYONS, Honolulu; born in Waimea, Island of Hawaii, 

June 27, 1833; admitted December 3, 1900. 

Lorenzo Lyons=Betsey Curtis. 

Dr. Jere Lyons=Mary Richards. 

nenjamin Bichards=:Ma.Tj Belcher. 

Benjamin Richards was born in Stoughton, Mass., March 20, 1738, and 

died January, 1816. He was a private in Capt. Edw. Bridge Savel's 

company, Col. Robinson 's regiment, which marched on the alarm of 

April 19, 1775, from Stoughtonham, Mass.; also in same company in 

Col. Gill's regiment on the alarm of March 4, 1776, and marched to 

Dorchester Hills. 
2o402 127 

HENRY BREWSTER MARINER, Manager First Trust Co., Hilo, Ha- 
waii; born in Oakland, Cal., November 18, 1877; admitted November 

18, 1908. 

Silas Henry Winthrop Marinen=:Lucy Adelaide Parrott. 

Silas Mariner=Deborah T. Stanwood. 

Winthrop Stanwood=MaTj Horton Curtis. 

Also: 

Silas Marin er=rDebor ah T. Stanwood. 

John Mariner=Hnmce Hannah. 

Winthrop Stanivood was born in Gloucester, Mass., September 6, 1761, 

and died at Cape Elizabeth, Maine, May 4, 1828. He was a private in 

Capt. John Kettell's company in Major Nathaniel Heath's detachment 

of guards; enlisted August 3, 1779; discharged September 30, 1779. 

Detached from militia for three months' service in and about Boston. 



70 Hawaiian Society 

Sergeant John Mariner was born in Falmouth, Mass., August 14, 1748. 
He enlisted as a private in Capt. Briant Morton's company under Col. 
Jonathan Mitchell, and was discharged November 25, 1776. He served 
on the seacoast at Cape Elizabeth, and built Fort Hancock where Fort 
^ reble now stands. He was a sergeant under Capt. Pride, enlisting 
October 1, 1779. He served under Nathaniel Jordan near Portland, 
Maine. 
9383 58 

F-RANCIS BLAKELEY McSTOCKER, Manager Hawaiian Development 
Co., Honolulu; born in Philadelphia, 1854; admitted August, 1897. 
Francis Blakeley McStocker 3rd:^Margaret Sarah Johnston. 
Francis Blakeley McStocker 2nd:^Julia Hibbs. 
xirightwell Hibbs=Mary Geyer. 
Balzar Geyer= 

Balzar Geyer served as a private in George Honey's Company in the 
Northern Division of the City Guards of Philadelphia, Pa., commanded 
Dy Lewis Nicholas, Mayor of the city, in 1/76. 
20403 128 

HOWARD CHARLES MOHR, Librarian, The Advertiser, Honolulu; born 
in Mohrsville, Pa., February 26, 1875; admitted November 18, 1908. 
Charles Shoemaker Mohr=rKatherine Anna Kershner. 
Daniel Kershner=Elizabeth Umbenhour. 
Samuel Umbenhour=Magdalen Leonard. 
Philip Leonard=Elizabeth Shappelle. 
Jacob Leonard=ATiJia Maria Krick. 
Also: 

Charles Shoemaker Mohr=Katherine Anna Kershner. 
Charles Huey Mohr=Sophia Shoemaker. 
Charles Shoemaker, Jr.=Elizabeth Kershner. 
Charles ShoemaJcer^=Maria Kepner. 
Also: 

Daniel Kershner=Elizabeth Umbenhauer. 
John Kershner=Katharine Hart. 
Conrad Kershner, Jr.=Catharine Rieser. 
Conrad Kershner, Sr.=Elizabeth Bertolette. 
Frederick Bertolette=:Esther Levan. 
Aoraham Levan= 
Also: 

Conrad Kershner, Jr.=Catharine Rieser. 
Jacob Eieser=BstheT Bertolette. 

Philip Leonard was born in York, Pa., August 25, 1746, and died in 
Lenhartsville, Pa., December 31, 1822. In 1781 he enlisted for a term 
of eighteen months in Col. Craig's Detachment, First Regiment, which 
marched with the Pennsylvania Line. He was enrolled in Capt. Bower 's 
company, and in 1782 transferred to Bower's company of the Second 
Regiment. In 1783 he re-enlisted for a seven-months' term in Col. 
Richard Butler 's company in the Ninth Regiment. Jacob Leonard was 
born in the Pfaltz, Germany, in 1736, and died in Lenhartsville, Pa., 
August 3, 1793. He enlisted as fifer in Capt. Jacob Lodich's company, 
Coi. Samuel Ely's battalion, Berks Co., Pa., militia, in 1781. Charles 
shoemaker was born in Gerniantown, Pa., December 28, 1742, and died in 
Shoemakersville, Pa., April 27, 1820. He represented Berks County, Pa., 
as a member of the Provincial Conference for Pennsylvania held at Car- 
penter's Hall, Philadelphia, June 25, 1776, and was also a delegate from 
Berks County to the Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia July 
15, which continued by adjournment until September 28, 1776. In 1777 
he was appointed one of the Justices of the County, serving until 1790. 



Sons of the American Revolution. 71 

The State Assembly in December, 1777, appointed him to solicit sub- 
scriptions for the Continental Loan. In November, 1777, he acted as one 
of the commissioners assembled in New Haven to regulate the price of 
commodities in the Colonies. Abraham Levan was born in Oley Town- 
ship, Berks County, Pa., in 1698, and died there in 1781. He was ap- 
pointed Judge of the Court Martial, Fourth Battalion, Berks County, 
May 17, 1777. He also served as guard of prisoners of war in Capt. 
Geist's Company, Fourth Battalion, Berks County Militia, guarding 
prisoners that had attempted to escape, and afterward guarding them 
from Eeading to Lancaster, Pa. Conrad Kershner, Jr., was a private, 
January 20, 1777, in Capt. Nicholas Scheffer's Company, First Battalion, 
Berks County Militia. He was also in Capt. Eheim's Company, First 
Battalion, Berks County Militia, in 1781, when it was ordered on an ex- 
pedition to New Town, Bucks County, Pa. He was born in Heidelberg, 
Berks County, Pa., in 1755, and died in 1801, in Windsor, Pa. Jacob 
Bieser was born in Berne, Berks County, Pa., January 16, 1755, and died 
there December 27, 1815. He was a corporal in Capt. Nicholas Scheffer's 
Company, First Battalion, Berks County Militia, in 1777; private in Capt. 
Charles Gobin's Company, Sixth Battalion, Berks County Militia, under 
Col. Jos. Heister, August 10 to September 9, 1780; also in Capt. Miller's 
Company of Militia commanded by Col. Joseph Heister, May 31, 1781. 
18950 125 

FRED ROCKWELL NUGENT, Board of Health, Honolulu; born in 
Placervielle, Cal., October 26, 1873; admitted October 3, 1908. 
3, 1908. 

Thomas Carr Nugent=:Juliett Maria Rockwell. 
Peter King Rockwell=Maria Dorcas Bell. 
William Jiell=DoTcaa Forster. 
John 2^ors^err=Catherine Dickey. 

William Bell was born in Lower Paxtang Township, Lancaster County, 
Pa., in 1744, and died in Erie, Pa., in September, 1813. He was captain 
of a company in the Lancaster County Battalion of Associators com- 
manded by Col. James Burd in 1776-1778. After the war he went to 
Erie and became judge of the courts and state senator. John Forster 
was born in 1725 and died in 1789. He served in the Lancaster Associa- 
tors in 1776 with his son-in-law, Capt. William Bell. 
755 (Formerly No. 154, Massachusetts State Society.) 37 

WILLIAM COOPER PARKE, Attorney, Honolulu; born in Honolulu, Sep- 
tember 19, 1865; admitted February, 1896. 
William Cooper Parke 2d=::Annie Severance. 
William Cooper Parke lst=Susan Wilde. 
mattheiv Parfce=Judith Cooper. 

Matthew ParJce was born in 1746, and died in Boston, Mass., in 1813. 
He was commissioned as Captain of Marines on the American Frigate 
Alliance in the fall of 1778. In January, 1779, he sailed in her to Brest, 
France. In February the Alliance was attached to the squadron of Com- 
modore John Paul Jones, and cruised in company with it until the famous 
engagement between the ' ' Bon Homme Richard ' ' and the ' * Serapis, ' ' 
September 23, 1779. During this cruise the Alliance captured the "Bet- 
sey," 22 guns, and the "Union," 22 guns. After another cruise off the 
French coast, he sailed to Boston, Mass., in July, 1780. In February, 

1781, he sailed again to L 'Orient, France. At the end of March the 
' ' Alliance ' ' sailed on another cruise, in which she captured two Guernsey 
privateers, April 2, and on the 28th of May captured two brigs, the 
"Atlanta" and the "Trepassy, " after a severe action, in which she lost 
eleven killed and twenty-one wounded, and reached Boston in safety. In 

1782, the ' ' Alliance ' ' fought her last battle while on a cruise to Havana. 
She was named in honor of the treaty of alliance made with France, and 
was always a favorite ship in the navy. 



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14646 96 
ERNEST NAPELA PARKER, Humuula, Hawaii; born in Paauhau, Ha- 
waii, September 21, ISSO; admitted February 13, 1907. 

Samuel Parker=Hattie Richardson. 

Ebenezer Parker=Kilia 

John P. Parker=Kipikane 

Samuel Parler=Ann Palmer. 

Ebenezer Par^Tr=Mindwell Bird. 

Samuel Parler was born in Newton, Mass., October 25, 1742. He was 

a private in Capt. Amariah Fuller 's company at the Lexington Alarm 

and a private in Capt. Phineas Cook 's company, Lieut.-Col. Wm. Bond 's 

Thirty-seventh Massachusetts Regiment. Ebenezer Parler was a private 

in Jeremiah Wiswall 's company, Lexington Alarm, and served two days. 
14b36 86 

SAMUEL PARKER, Honolulu; born in Kohala, Hawaii, May 7, 1853; 

admitted August 14, 1906. 

Ebenezer Parker=Kilia. 

Descendant of Samuel Parker and Ebenezer Parker. (See record of 

Ernest Napela Parker.) 

14647 97 
SAMUEL PARKER, JR., Manager Humuula Sheep Station Co., Kamuela, 

Hawaii; born at Waimea, Island of Hawaii, June 19, 1879; admitted 

I'ebruary 13, 1907. 

Samuel Parker=Hattie Richardson. 

Descendant of Samuel Parker and Ebenezer Parker. (See record of 

Ernest Napela Parker.) 

14631 81 

CHARLES FRANCIS PARSONS, Judge Circuit Court, Fourth Circuit, 

Hilo, Hawaii; born in Mankato, Minn., January 18, 1872; admitted July 

10, 1906. 

S. DeWitt Parsons=Frances White. 
Albert S. 'White=Harriet Randolph. 
'jL nomas ^lann Randolph:=:Harriet Wilson. 
Tliotnas Mann Eandolph=GahTie\la. Harvie. 

Thomas Mann Randolph was born in Tuckahoe, Va., in 1741, and died 
there November 19, 1793. He was a member of the Virginia House of 
Burgesses and of the Convention of 1776, and of the Colonial Committee 
of Safety. 
9400 75 

DE BLOIS PEARCE PENHALLOW, master mariner, Wailuku, Maui; 
born in Honolulu, December 31, 1844; admitted December 23, 1901. 
David Pearce Penhallow^iMary Yeaton. 
Hunking Penhallow=Harriet Pearce. 
John Penhallow=Sarah Went worth. 
Hunking Jre;i<irori/i=Elizabeth Wibird. 
Also: 

Hunking Penhallow=Harriet Pearce. 
David Pearce= 

Hunking Wentworth, uncle of the then Royal ^.overnor of New Hamp- 
shire, was Chairman of the First Committee of Safety, in the Revolution. 
David Pearce of Gloucester, Mass., born October 26, 1736, was a wealthy 
merchant and ship owner, and rendered important assistance to the Gov- 
ernment during the War of Independence. He had a number of priva- 
teers at sea, and assisted in equipping the frigate "Flora" and other 
vessels in the American Na%-y. A list has been published, which shows 
that he put 204 guns on board of thirteen privateers and national vessels. 
He died at Gloucester, March 16, 1818, aged 82 years. 



Sons of the American Revolution. 73 

9396 7 1 

HENRY BALCH PENHALLOW, Manager Wjiiluku hujr.-ir Co., Wiiilnkii, 

Hawaii; born in San Francisco, (.'al., Dcccmbor 2, 1S77; a(lniiU,(!<l l<\:\)- 

ruary, 1900. 

De Blois Pearce Penhallow^Eliza Otis Turner. 

Descendant of Uunkiufj kVcntu)orlh and David Pearce. (See record 

of De Blois Pearce Penhaliow.) 
4693 43 

JOHN SCOTT BOYD PRATT, President Board of Tfealtli, Honolulu; 

born in Geneva, N. Y., November 1, 1860; admitted April, 1896. 

James Hyde Pratt=Sojihia Hale Boyd. 

Harry l'ratt=8usan Cleveland. 

Capt. James I'ratt= 

Also: 

James Hyde Pratt=Sophia Hale Boyd. 

James R. Boyd:^Elizal:>eth Moseley Camp. 

Descendant of Capt. Jonathan Hale and Joseph Moseley. (H(!0 rr;cord 

of Albert Francis Judd.) 

Capt. James Pratt was born in 1753, and rlied in 1820. He assisted 

his twin brother, Ca7>t. John Pratt, as commissary, from December 1, 

1778, till after April, 1779, at Schoharie, N. Y., which was the commis- 
sary depot of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He 

also served in Capt. Charles Whitney's com[>any of Col. S. l'>. Well's 

regiment. 
18929 104 

ROBERT oAMES PRATT, chief draughtsman, Honolulu Iron Works, 

Honolulu; born in New York City, Octol^er 28, 1860; admitted May 4, 

1907. 

James Hyde Pratt^Sophia Hale Boyd. 

Descendant of Capt. James Pratt, Capt. Jonathan Hale, and Joseph 

Moseley. (See records of John Scott Boyd J'ratt and Albr;rt Francis 

Judd.) 
20410 i:ir, 

EALPH JOSEPH RICHARDSON; born in Minneapolis, Minn., December 
14, 1886; admitted May 10, 1910. 
Walter Jay Richardson^Sarah Sagar. 
Joseph Richardson=Lydia Phelps Read. 
Sampson Read=Huldah Bisbee. 
Sampson Read=:.Jane Ellis. 
Sampson Bead=Lyfliai Phelps. 
Also: 

Sampson Read=.Jane Ellis. 
Freeman Ellis=fiaTa.h Bradford. 
Also: 

Sampson Read=:Huldah Bisbee. 
Elislui Bisbee=y'i'd.ry Pettinghill. 
CMrles Bisbee=Jieu]'d.h Howland. 

fiampson Bead was born in Middlesex Co., Mass., May 13, 1754, and 
died in Westford, Mass., in 1777. He was a private in Capt. Jonathan 
Minott's company in Col. Baldwin's Massachusetts Regiment. Freeman 
Ellis enlisted at Plympton, Mass., as corx^oral in Capt. John Bradford's 
company, Col. Theophilus Cotton 's regiment, which marched on the alarm 
of April 19, 1775, to Marshfield. He served as private, March 29, 1777, 
and marched to Bristol, Long Island, on an alarm, in Capt. Ja». Harlor's 



74 Hawaiian Society 

company, commanded by Lieut. Elijah Bisbee, Jr., Col. Thos. Lothrop's 
regiment, Gen. Joseph Gushing 's brigade. Elisha Bisbee was born in 
East Bridgewater, Mass., in 1757. He served fourteen days in Lexing- 
ton Alarm as private in Capt. Amos Turner 's company, Col. John Bailey 's 
regiment. He enlisted May 3, 1775, in same company and served three 
months and six days, at siege of Boston. September 20, 1776, he en- 
listed in Capt. Abram Washburn's company. Col. John Cushing's regi- 
ment, and served fifty-nine days at Newport, E. I. In 1778 he was a 
private in Capt. Cole's company. Col. Jacob's regiment. He was a black- 
smith by trade, and made the chain that blocked the British from going 
up the Hudson river. Charles Bisbee died at Bridgewater, Mass. He 
served fourteen days in Lexington Alarm in Capt. Freeman Chamber- 
lain's company. Col. Bailey's regiment, and enlisted May 3, 1775, and 
served three months under same captain in Gen. John Thomas' regiment. 
In 1777 he served in Ehode Island in Capt. John Turner 's company, in 
Col. Cotton's regiment. 
18946 121 

FEANK ADAMS EICHMOND, teacher; born in Marva, 111., December 
6, 1876; admitted December 23, 1907. 
Alfred Eichmond=Emily Adams. 
Horace Eiehmond=Phoebe Eaton. 
Capt. Elias Eichmond=Lucy Chaffee. 
Ephraim Bichmond=Ami Deane. 
Also: 

Horace Eichmond=Phoebe Eaton. 
Asa Eaton, Jr.=Melinda Hitchcock. 
Asa Eaton= 
James Eato7i= 
Also : 

Asa Eaton, Jr.=:Melinda Hitchcock. 

Eldad Hitchcock=EstlieT Hoar. 

Nathan Hoar= 

Also: 

ju-v. Alfred Eichmond=Emily Adams. 

Dr. Samuel Adams=Mary Joanna Moulton. 

Isaac Adams=01ive Wight. 

Capt. Samuel Adams==Lucy Spofford. 

Also: 

Isaac Adams=01ive Wight. 

Joel Wight=Il\izahet'h Twitchel. 

Also: 

Dr. Samuel Adams=Mary Joanna Moulton. 

Dr. Jotham Tilden Moulton^Mary Joanna Farrar. 

Brig. Gen. Jotham Moulton=J oanna Tilden. 

Col. Jeremiah Moulton==Ramiah Sayward. 

Also: 

Dr. Jotham Tilden MoultonmMary Joanna Farrar. 

Humphrey Farrar=Lucy Farrar. 

Deacon Samuel Farrar (father of Lucy)=Lydia Barrett. 

Ephraim Bichmond was born at Middleboro, Mass., in 1735, and died 
in Grafton, Vt., in 1816. He was a private in the Massachusetts Militia 
raised in Taunton, Mass. He had been a soldier in the French War, 
stationed at Cape Breton. James Eaton was a private in the Connecticut 
Line. Eldad Eitchcocl: was born in 1757 and died in 1829 ; was a Minute 
Man from Brimfield, Mass., at the Lexington Alarm. Nathan Hoar was 



Sons of the American Revolution. 75 

a private in the Massachusetts Militia. Capt. Samuel Adams was born 
in Boxford, Mass., August 22, 1750; died in Jaffrey, N. H., February 21, 
1813. He was one of the men from Col. Enoch Hale's regiment who 
marched to Ticonderoga under command of Capt. Josiah Brown to re- 
inforce the Continental Army, May 6, 1777. Joel Wight was born in 
Medford, Mass., in 1741, and died in Gilead, Me., in 1824. He enlisted 
January 1, 1776, at Cambridge, Mass., and served one year as a private 
under Capt. Nathan Watkins, Col. Edmund Phinney, in the Massachusetts 
Continental Line. Obtained a pension in 1818 when totally blind. 
Brig. Gen. Jotham Moulton was born February 12, 1743, at York, Maine, 
and died May 12, 1777, in South Carolina of fever contracted while 
crossing the Carolina swamps. He was an officer of the crown, but threw 
up his commission to go into the Eevolution. He was commissioned Au- 
gust 30, 1775, as Colonel of York County Militia, and January 30, 1776, 
as Brigadier General of a Y'ork County Kegiment to reinforce the Army 
at Ticonderoga. Col. Jeremiah Moulton was born January 17, 1713, and 
died July 16, 1777, in South Carolina of army fever. He was an officer 
of the crown before the Revolution. He was a colonel in the Revolution. 
Sumphrey Farrar was born in Lincoln, Mass., February 28, 1740, and 
died in Colebrook, Mass. He was a private in Capt. Wm. Smith's com- 
pany. Col. Abijah Pierce's regiment, and a Minute Man at Lexington. 
He was also a private in Capt. Hartwell's company, Col. Eliezer Brook's 
regiment, Massachusetts Militia, at Dorchester Heights, March 4, 1776. 
Beacon Samuel Farrar was born in Concord, Mass., September 28, 1708, 
and died April 17, 1783. He was chairman of the first Committee of 
Correspondence, which met at Middlesex, August 30, 1774; chairman of 
the fii'st Committee of Safety, Concord; also member of the first Pro- 
vincial Congress, which met October 11, 1774. Although sixty-five years 
old, he responded to the call of Paul Revere and took part in the battle 
of Concord. He was a private in Capt. Samuel Derby's company. Second 
Massachusetts Regiment, under Col. John Bailey. 
4667 17 

LUTHER SEVERANCE, Librarian, Hilo; born in Augusta, Maine, June 
1, 1836; admitted June, 1895. 
Luther Severance=:Anna Hamlen. 
Elihu Severance^Tryphena Gunn. 
Moses Severance=3 oanna, French. 

Ensign Moses Severance was born in Deerfield, Mass., March 23, 1730; 
died at Montague, Mass., August 1, 1799. He enlisted, 1776, in Capt. 
Burke 's Company of Rangers, and afterward served in other companies. 
He was a delegate from Montague to the State Convention that passed 
on the ratification of the Federal Constitution. 
4689 39 

FREDERICK CARLOS SMITH, Passenger and Ticket Agent, O. R. & L. 
Co., Honolulu; born in New Haven, Conn., May 20, 1871; admitted 
March, 1896. 

Carlos Smith=Isabella Graham Maltby. 
Julius Maltby=Melinda Fowler. 
Solomon Fowler=01ive Douglas. 

Descendant of Col. William. Douglas and Capt. Josiah Fowler. (See 
record of William Douglas Alexander.) 
14630 80 

JARED GAGE SMITH, scientist, Honolulu; born in Sparta, N. Y., Sep- 
tember 13, 1866; admitted May 2, 1904. 
Prosper Adams Smith=Delia Spencer. 
Elisha Smith=Zeruiah Adams. 
Jesse ^dams=Zeruiah Cady. 



7(i Hawaiian Society 

Jesse Adams was born in Canterbury, Conn., July 17, 1757, and died 
in Pawlet, Vt., in 1812. He was a private in Capt. Bacon's company 
under Col. Chester in 1776 in the Sixth Connecticut Battalion, Wads- 
worth's brigade. This battalion was raised in June, 1776, to reinforce 
Washington in New York, and was stationed at the i'latbush Pass on 
Long Island, August 26, and engaged in the battle the following day, 
narrowly escaping capture. It was engaged at White Plains, Octouer 28, 
and was in New Jersey at the time of the battle of Trenton, but not 
in the battle. 
14639 89 

JOHN ULRIC SMITH, lawyer, Hilo, Hawaii; born in Garibaldi, Oregon, 
April 30, 1868; admitted September 24, 1906. 
Sidney Smith=Mianda Bayley. 
Daniel Dodge Bayley=Elizabeth Monson. 
Capt. Timothy Bayley=Zerma}i Blodgett. 

Capt. Timothy Bayley died in 1824. He enlisted at New Lisbon, Graf- 
ton Co., N. H., at the beginning of the Revolutionary War and served 
seven years in the Continental Army. He rose to the rank of first lieu- 
tenant; was at Valley Forge and the surrender of Cornwallis at York- 
town. 
20405 130 

WALTER GIFFORD SMITH, journalist, Honolulu; born in Sherburne, 
N. Y., July 23, 1859; admitted May 27, 1909. 
Levi Nathaniel Smith^Sarah Katharine. 
John E. Smith=Hannah Knapp. 

Daniel Knapp=Lucy 

Joshua iTnapp^Abigail Bostwick Dibble. 

Joshua Knapp was born in Danbury, Conn., February 5, 1716, and died 
in the same place, August 8, 1798. He was a Minute Man of Danbury. 
14038 88 

FREDERICK GALEN SNOW, dairyman, Glenwood, Hawaii; born in Ku- 
saie, Caroline Islands, March 9, ^858; admitted August 21, 1906. 
Benjamin Galen Snow=Lydia Vose Buck. 
Ebenezer Buck=Mehitable Vose. 
Thomas Vose^Mehitable Hayden. 
Josiah Hayden=Bilenee Howard. 

Capt. Josiah Hayden was born in Braintree, Mass., May 15, 1734, and 
died in Winslow, Maine, September 2, 1818. He served in Col. Bailey's 
Regiment of Minute Men, April 19 to May 1, 1775; then in Brig. Gen. 
Thomas' regiment. January 1, 1776, he was commissioned Major of the 
Twenty-third Regiment under Col. John Bailey, and commanded the regi- 
ment at the battle of Harlem Heights, September 16, 1776. 
18935 110 

JAMES TOWNSEND TAYLOR, civil engineer, Honolulu; born March 
19, 1859, in Kona, Hawaii; admitted August 17, 1907. 
Townsend Elijah Taylor=Persis Goodale (Thurston) Taylor. 
Asa Thurston=Lucy Goodale. 
Ahner Goodale=yLo\\y Howe. 
Eliakim nowe=Reheaca, Howe. 

Abner Goodale was born in Marlborough, Mass., August 22, 1755; died 
in the same town May 16, 1823. On the day of the battle of Lexington, 
April 19, 1775, he enlisted in Capt. Howe 's company at Marlborough and 
marched to Cambridge, Mass., and there did duty until the expiration 
of his term of enlistment. He enlisted again in Decemoer, 1775, in 
Capt. Gate 's company of militia in Col. Ward 's regiment, and served in 
the campaign of White Plains, N. Y. Elial-im Howe was born in 1723 



Sons of the American Revolution. 77 

in Marlborough, Mass.; died in 1805 in Brownfield, Maine. He was a 
signer of the Association Test Oath of New Hampshire, April 12, 1776, 
and on the Committee to fill the quota for the Continental Army. He 
was a member of the alarm list of Henneker, N. H., where he lived dur- 
ing the Eevolution. 
4679 29 

LORRIN ANDREWS THURSTON, President Hawaiian Gazette Co., Ltd., 
Honolulu; born at Honolulu, July 31, 1858; admitted October 5, 1895. 
Asa Goodale Thurston=Sarah Andrews. 
Rev. Asa Thurston=Lucy Goodale. 

Descendant of Ahner Goodale and Eliakim Howe. (See record of 

James Townsend Taylor.) 

18949 124 

REV. EDWARD WAITE THWING, Agent International Reform Bureau, 

Tientsin, China; born February 11, 1868, at Boston, Mass.; admitted 

September 4, 1908. 

Edward Payson Thwing:=:Susan Maria Waite. 
Thomas Thwing=Grace Welch Barnes. 
Nicholas Thtving='Lydia Stratton. 
John Thwing=zSa,Tah Chamberlain. 

Nicholas Thiving was born at Newton, Mass., July 16, 1762; died at 
the same place, November 10, 1841. He was a corporal in a company 
raised by the town of Newton for service in the Continental Army during 
1780. His service was for six months. John Thwing was born March 11, 
1732, at Cambridge, Mass.; died 1811 at Newton. He was a sergeant in 
Capt. Phineas Cook's company which marched April 19, 1775, at Cam- 
bridge, Mass., under command of Capt. Lieut. John Marean. 
14648 98 

ROBERT PARKER WAIPA, County Sanitary inspector, Honolulu; born 
May 15, 1856, at Hamakua, Hawaii; admitted February 13, 1907. 
Kameeiamoku Waipa=Mary Parker. 
John P. Parker=:Kipikane. 

Descendant of Samuel Parker and Ehenezer ParJcer. (See record of 
Jbrnest Napela Parker. 
18932 107 

ROBERT PARKER WAIPA, JR., Clerk Circuit Court, First Circuit, Hono- 
lulu; born in Mana, Hawaii, August 11, 1878; admitted May 14, 1907. 
Robert Parker Waipa=Sarali Koa. 
Kameeiamoku Waipa=Mary Parker. 

Descendant of Samuel Parker and Eheneser ParJcer. (See record of 
Ernest Napela Parker.) 
18931 106 

STEPHEN PARKER WAIPA, Honolulu; bom in Honolulu, December 25, 
1887; admitted May 14, 1907. 
Kameeiamoku Waipa=Sarah Koa. 

Descendant of Samuel Parker and Ehenezer Parker. (See record of 
Ernest Napela Parker.) 
18934 109 

ALBERT WATERHOUSE, Pearl City, Hawaii; born in Honolulu, No- 
vember 17, 1879; admitted May 28, 1907. 
Henry Waterhouse=Julia Hawkins Dimond . 
Henry Dimond=Ann Maria Anner. 
Jesse Dimond=Bethiah Marquand. 
Daniel Dimon='Lois Bradley. 



78 Hawaiian Society 

Daniel Dimon was born in Fairfield, Conn., March 20, 1747, and died 
in Fairfield, September 6, 1808. He was ensign in Col. Samuel Whiting's 
Eegiment of Guards, being the fourth Regiment of Connecticut Militia 
raised for the defense of the State, March, 1777. 

9395 70 

CHARLES BLODGET WELLS; born in Gloversville, N. Y., April 27, 
1858; admitted 1899. 
Ward S. Wells=Helen Frances Blodget. 
James F. Blodget=Miriam Clarissa Redington. 
John Eedington^=:Liaiira Wales. 

John Eedington was born in Boston, Mass., September 29, 1747, and 
died in Lawyersville, Schoharie Co., N. Y., April 12, 1830. He enlisted 
May 14, 1776, at Tolland, Conn., in Capt. Pryor's company of Col. 
Ward's regiment. After reaching JSIew York, he entered Capt. Allen's 
Artillery company, in which he served till May, 1777. He took an active 
part in the capture of the Hessians at the battle of Trenton, December 
25, 1776, and in the victory at Princeton, January 3, 1777. After he had 
been honorably discharged in May, 1777, at Chatham, N. Y., he served as 
one of Capt. Chamberlain's Horse, in the service of Connecticut, and was 
present at the surrender of Gen. Burgoyne, October 17, 1777. He served 
through three annual enlistments, under Capt. James Dana, and while 
in that service in 1781 was taken prisoner by the Hessians at Horse Neck, 
near Greenwich, Conn. With several other prisoners, he was driven bare- 
footed over the frozen, snow-covered ground for thirty miles, into the 
City of New York. There he was imprisoned for two months in the 
* ' Old Sugar House. ' ' At the close of the war he removed to Schoharie 
Co., N. Y., where he resided until his death. 

4669 19 

GERRIT PARMELE WILDER; born in Honolulu, November 5, 1863; ad- 
mitted June, 1895. 

Samuel Gardner Wilder=Elizabeth Kinau Judd. 
Dr. Gerrit Parmele Judd=Laura Fish. 

Descendant of Lieut. Samuel Williams and Capt. Thomas Judd. (See 
record of Albert Francis Judd.) 

14629 79 

NATHAN CROSBY WILLFONG, Tax Assessor, Hilo, Hawaii; born March 
2, 1853, at Hana, Hawaii; admitted May 2, 1904. 
George W. Willfong=Mary C. Benson. 
David Willfong=Susan Champe. 
John Cham2)e=Susan Barnard. 

John Champe was born in 1752 in Loudon Co., Va., and died in 1798 
in Kentucky. He enlisted in Lee's Legion in Loudon Co., Va., and was 
promoted to sergeant-major. At Gen. Harry Lee's suggestion, approved 
by Gen. Washington, October 20, 1780, he undertook the capture of the 
traitor Gen. Arnold in New York City. In company with other Amer- 
icans, he rented a dwelling adjoining Arnold's. They laid plans to gag 
and remove him, but were frustrated by Clinton 's hasty order for em- 
barkation, which took place on the day of the night in which the arrest 
was to have been made. He went south in the same squadron, having 
enlisted in Arnold's regiment, and escaped from the British lines and 
reported to Gen. Washington. At Washington 's advice he resigned from 
the army before the end of the war. His intrigue had become known 
and the condition of affairs between the two armies was such that no 
influence could have saved him from a spy 's death in case of his capture. 



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20408 133 

EARL HERBERT WILLIAMS, clerk, Hilo, Hawaii; born in Kapulena, 
Hawaii, April 9, 1888; admitted July 17, 1909. 
Charles Williains=Harriet Luukia. 
Henry Williams=Mary Kanealii. 
Jesse Williams=:Roxana 
Obed Williams= 

Obed Williams was a private from Waterbury, Conn., in the Fifth Com- 
pany of the First Regiment of Connecticut Militia, and was at the siege 
of Boston. He afterward enlisted again in the Connecticut Line under 
Capt. Smith, and was discharged May 28, 1780. 

3485 93 

DAVID LITTLE WITHINGTON, attorney-at-law, Honolulu; born in 
Newbury, Mass., February 2, 1854; admitted November, 1906, by trans- 
fer from California Society. 
Nathan Noyes Withington=Elizabeth Little. 
Tristram Little=Sarah Little. 
David Little=Abigail Noyes. 
John Noyes=Sarah Little. 
Col. Moses Lii<Ze=Abigail Bailey. 

Col. Moses Little was born in 1724 at Newbury, Mass., and died at 
NeAvbury, May 27, 1798. He was captain of a company of Minute Men 
which marched on alarm of April 19, 1775, to Cambridge, Mass. He was 
colonel of the Seventeenth Massachusetts Regiment, commissioned May 1, 
1775, and in service at the battle of Bunker Hill. He was colonel of the 
Twelfth Continental Infantry in 1776 in Major-General Greene's division 
of the Continental Army, and at Flatbush Pass in the disastrous battle 
of Long Island, and at Harlem Heights. June 16, 1777, he was com- 
missioned Brigadier General and appointed to command forces destined 
for Nova Scotia, but declined the appointment on account of broken 
health occasioned by his services in the last campaign. He represented 
Newbury, Mass., in the General Court, 1777-1781. 

18944 119 

JAMES FRANK WOODS, proprietor Kahua Ranch, Mahukona, Hawaii; 

born November 16, 1875, at Kohala, Hawaii; admitted December 6, 1907. 

James Woods=Mary Parker. 

John Parker=rHanai. 

John P. Parker=Kipikane. 

Descendant of Samuel Parker and Ebenezer Parlcer. (See record of 
Ernest Napela Parker.) 

14637 87 

PALMER PARKER WOODS, rancher, Kohala, Hawaii; born August 31, 

1870, at Kohala, Hawaii; admitted August 14, 1906. 

James Woods=Mary Parker. 

Descendant of Samuel Parlcer and Ebeneser Parker. (See record of 
Ernest Napela Parker.) 

18930 105 

SAMUEL PARKER WOODS, pineapple grower, Kohala, Hawaii; born 

February 19, 1877, at North Kohala, Hawaii; admitted May 4, 1907. 

James Woods=Mary Parker. 

Descendant of Samuel Parker and Ebenezer Parker. (See record of 
Ernest Napela Parker.) 



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MEMBERS HAWAIIAN SOCIETY SONS OF THE AMERICAN 
REVOLUTION. 



1— 4641 Alexander, William DeWitt 

2 — 4652 Alexander, William JJouglas 
76—14626 Amweg, Frederick J. 

3 — 4653 Atherton, Charles Henry 
68— 9393 Atherton, Frank Cooke 
82 — 14632 Austin, Charles Jonathan 

112 — 18937 Axtell, Josephua Carlisle 

115—18940 Axtell, Raymond Carlisle 

91 — 14641 Baldwin, Erdmann Dwight 

35— 4685 Ballou, Sidney Miller 

114—18839 Banning, Bernhard Rudolf 

122—18947 Bicknell, James 

62— 9387 Bond, Dr. Benjamin Davis 

38— 4688 Bond, Elias Cornelius 

129—20404 Bosson, Charles Lewis 

123—18948 Bray, Isaiah 

22— 4672 Bromley, Walter Hall 

77 — 14627 Bruner, William Woodworth 

138—20413 Canfield, Ira Day Parsons 

5 — 4655 Carter, George Robert 

60— 9385 Castle, George Parmalee 

53— 9378 Castle, William Richards 

33— 4683 Chamberlain, Warren 

34 — 4684 Chamberlain, William Warren 
73— 9398 Clark, Ernest Brooks 

137—20412 Coburn, Harrie Cutler 

20 — ■ 4670 Cooke, Amos Francis 

64— 9389 Cooke, Clarence Hyde 
85—14635 Cooke, George Paul 

103—18928 Cooke, Joseph Piatt 

61 — 9386 Cooper, Dr. Charles Bryant 
102—18927 Damon, Samuel Mills 

84 — 14634 Davis, Gen. Edward 

99—14649 Dickey, Charles Henry 

46 — 4696 Dickey, Lyle Alexander 

7 — 4657 Dodge, Frank Stanwood 
78—14628 Dow, Herbert Manchester 

120—18945 Eaton, William Lewis 

8— 4658 Effinger, John 

51 — 9376 Farrington, Wallace Rider 

9 — 4659 Forbes, William Joseph 
134 — 20409 Greene, Rowland Jay 

92—14642 Hall, Edwin Oscar 

55 — 9380 Hopper, William Lewers 

94 — 14644 Home, Perley Leonard 

65— 9390 Hustace, Charles, Jr. 
136 — 20411 Jones, Edwin Austin 

13— 4663 Jones, John Walter 

12 — 860 Jones, Peter Cushman 

126—20401 Juen, Henry Arthur 

54— 6996 Judd, Albert Francis 
131—20406 Judd, Rev. Henry Pratt 
115—18938 Judd, Robert James 



1508 Punahou St. 

1508 Punahou St. 

700-5 Marston Bldg., San 
Francisco 

706 S. King St. 

2234 Kamehameha Ave. 

Nahiku, Hawaii 

P. O. Box 642 

1048 Alakea St. 

Judd Bldg. 

910 Colorado Bldg., Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

C/o J. A. Magoon 

P. O. Box 798 

Kohala, Hawaii 

Feramand ave. nr. Manoa rd. 

Dewey House, 4th and ixow- 
ara Sts., San Francisco 

Quarantine Station 

1726 Anapuni St. 

180 Perry St., Oakland, Cal. 

Honolulu 

472 Judd St. 

Stangenwald Bldg. 

37 Merchant St. 

Spencer St. 

Wilder av. cor Spencer av. 

Bank of Hawaii 

Eleele, ivauai 

202 McCandless Bldg. 

1646 Keeaumoku St. 

Kauluwai, Molokai 

Stangenwald Bldg. 

1141 Alakea St. 

C/o Bishop & Co. 

1522 Hastings St. 

1 Campbell Block 

1 Campbell Block 

1808 Punahou St. 

105 Dearborn St., Chicago 

C/o Evening Buhetin 

Alexander Young Bldg. 

Evening Bulletin 

Punahou and Young Sts. 

11th Avenue 

Bangor, Maine 

1802 Keeaumoku St. 

Kamehameha Schools 

880 S. Beretania St. 

Honolulu 

1536 Kewalo St. 

205 McCanaless Bldg. 

1189 Alakea St. 

622 Judd St. 

Kahului, Maui 

927 Prospect St. 



Sons of the American Revolution. 



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66 — 9391 King, Dr. Ernest Frothingham 

83 — 14633 Kingsbury, Hon. Selden Bingham 

30— 4680 Kinney, William Ansel 

95 — 14645 Leach, Eay Hotchkiss 

69— 9394 Low, Ebenezer Parker 
90 — 14640 Low, John Stanley 

116 — 18941 Lowrey, Frederick Dwight 

59 — • 9384 Lowrey, Frederick Jewett 

117 — 18942 Lyman, Clarence Kumukoa 

100 — 146o0 Lyman, Eugene Hollis 

101 — 18926 Lyman, Frederick Snowden 

18— 4668 Lyons, Curtis Jerre 

127 — 20402 Mariner, Henry Brewster 

58— 9383 McStocker, Frank Blakeley 

128—20403 Mohr, Howard Charles 

125—18950 JNJugent, Fred Eockwell 

37 — 755 Parke, William Cooper 

96—14646 Parker, Ernest Napela 

86—14636 Parker, Samuel 

97—14647 Parker, Samuel, Jr. 

81 — 14631 Parsons, Hon. Charles Francis 

75 — 9400 Penhallow, Capt. Be Blois Pearce 

71— 9396 Penhallow, Henry Balch 

43— 4693 Pratt, John Scott Boyd 

104—18929 Pratt, Eobert James 

135 — 20410 Eichardson, Ealph Joseph 

121—18946 Eichmond, Frank Adams 

17 — 4667 Severance, Luther 

39— 4689 Smith, Frederick Carlos 

80—14630 Smith, Jared Gage 

89—14639 Smith, John Ulric 

130—20405 Smith, Walter GifFord 

88—14638 Snow, Frederick Galen 

110—18935 Taylor, James Townsend 

29 — 4679 Thurston, Lorrin Andrews 

124—18949 Thwing, Eev. Edward Waite 

98—14648 Waipa, Eobert Parker 

107—18932 Waipa, Eobert Parker, Jr. 

106—18931 Waipa, Stephen Parker 

31^ 4681 Walton, Clarence Munroe 

109—18934 Waterhouse, Albert 

70— 9395 Wells, Charles Blodget 

19— 4669 Wilder, Gerrit Parmile 

' 79—14629 Willfong, Nathan Crosby 

133—20408 Williams, Earl Herbert 

93— 3485 Withington, David Little 

45— 4695 Wood, Dr. Clifford Brown 

119—18944 Woods, James Frank 

87—14637 Woods, Palmer Parker 

105—18930 Woods, Samuel Parker 



Washington, D. C. 

Wailuku, Maui 

303 Stangenwald Bldg. 

C/o Hawaiian nne apple Co. 

1826 S. King St. 

C/o Hawaiian Irrigation Co., 
Kukuihaele, Hawaii 

177 S. King St. 

177 S. King St. 

2d Lt., 4th Cav., Fort Eiley, 
Kansas 

Hilo, Hawaii 

Maunawai, Oahu 

1508 Alexander St. 

C/o Hawaiian Trust Co. 

1044 Lunalilo St. 

C/o Hawaiian Gazette Co. 

471 S. Hotel St. 

309 Judd Bldg. 

Humuula, Hawaii 

1471 Emma St. 

Humuula, Hawaii 

Hilo, Hawaii 

C/o H. B. Penhallow, Wai- 
luku, Maui 

Wailuku, Maui 

2048 Nuuanu Ave. 

P. O. Box 414 

P. O. Box 677 

6015 Kimbark Ave, Chicago 

Hilo, Hawaii 

Keeaumoku St. nr Wilder Av 

Vancouver Highway 

Hilo, Hawaii 

C/o Star, Honolulu 

Olaa, Hawaii 

P. O. Box 799 

505 Stangenwald Bldg. 

Tien-tsin, China 

Parker ijane 

Parker Lane 

1471 Fort St. 

Pahala, Hawaii 

Judd Bldg. 

1930 Ualakaa St. 
Hilo, Hawaii 
Hilo, Hawaii 
37 Merchant St. 
J.66 Thurston Ave. 
Mahukona, Hawaii 
Kohala, Hawaii 
Mahukona, Hawaii 



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INDEX OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR ANCESTORS. 

ANCESTOR. PAGE 

Adams, Jesse 75 

Adams, Capt. Samuel 74 

Alexander, James 61 

Allen, William 61 

Allen, William 66 

Antes, Capt. Henry 57 

Axtell, Major Henry 55 

Baker, Col. Otis 63 

Baldwin, Abial 53, 55 

Baldwin, Capt. Isaac 64, 65 

Bayley, Capt. Timothy 76 

Bell, Capt. William 71 

Bisbee, Charles 73 

Bisbee, Elisha 73 

Blake, William 63 

Bond, Col. William 56 

Bray, William 57 

Bromley, William 1st 57 

Bromley, William 2d 57 

Canfield, Col. Samuel 68 

Chamberlain, Joseph 58, 59, 62, 69 

Chamberlain, Wilson 58, 59, 62, 69 

Chambers, Col. William 52, 53, 61 

Champe, John 78 

Chapman, Rev. Benjamin 55 

Chenery, Dr. Isaac 60 

Chittenden, Jared 67 

Clark, Edward 54, 59 

Coffin, Abner 63 

Collins, Thomas 57 

Cooke, Col. Joseph Piatt 53, 54, 59, 60 

Cutler, Ebenezer 59 

Depew, John 61 

Dickey, Robert 61 

Dimon, Ensign Daniel 77 

Douglas, Col. William 52, 55, 75 

Eaton, David 62 

Eaton, James 74 

von Effinger, Capt. John Ignatius 62 

Ellis, Freeman 73 

Farrar, Humphrey 74 

Farrar, Samuel 74 

Farrington, John 2d 62 

Fenn, Capt. Theophilus 53 

Ferguson, Capt. John 55 

Forster, John 71 

Fowler, Caleb 67 

Fowler, Ebenezer 67 

Fowler, Capt. Josiah 53, 55, 75 

Geyer, Balzar 70 

Goodale, Abner 76, 77 

Green, Capt. John 62 

Hale, Capt. Jonathan 65, 66, 73 

Hamilton, Capt. John 55 

Hayden, Capt. Josiah 76 



Sons of the American Revolution. 83 

ancestor. page 

Hempstead, Samuel Booth 64 

Henry, James 61 

Hitchcock, Eldad 74 

Hotchkiss, Isaac 67 

Hoar, Nathan 74 

Hobbs, Jacob 56 

Howe, Eliakim 76, 77 

Hubbard, Israel 53, 54, 59, 60 

Hutching, Col. Benjamin 66 

Jencks, Capt. Eleazar 55 

Jewett, Capt. Daniel 68 

Jones, Lieut. -Col. Jonathan 57 

Judd, Capt. Thomas 58, 65, 66, 78 

Kershner, Conrad, Jr 70 

King, Benjamin 66 

King, Sergt. George 66 

Kingsbury, Lemuel 66 

Kittredge, Solomon 54^ 59 

Knapp, Joshua 76 

Lanpheer, Capt. James 64 

Leonard, Jacob 70 

Leonard, Philip 70 

Levan, Abraham 70 

Little, Col. Moses 79 

Low, Lieut.-Col. John 68 

Lyman, Lieut. David 69 

Manwaring, John 63 

Mariner, Sergt. John 69 

Mcintosh, Peter 64, 65 

McKinney, Lieut. Mordecai 52, 53, 61 

McMeyer, Gen. Andrew 60 

Montague, Capt. Caleb 53, 54, 59, 60 

Moore, Capt. Abijah 68 

Mosely, Joseph 65, 66, 73 

Moulton, Col. Jeremiah 74 

Moulton, Brig.-Gen. Jotham 74 

Parke, Capt. Matthew 71 

Parker, Ebenezer 72, 77, 79 

Parker, Samuel 72, 77, 79 

Parsons, Stephen 57 

Pearee, David 72, 73 

Penniman, Corp. James 60 

Pratt, Capt. James 73 

Eandolph, Thomas Mann 72 

Bead, Sampson 73 

Eedington, John 78 

Eichards, Benjamin 69 

Eichmond, Ephraim 74 

Eieser, Corp. Jacob 70 

Bobbins, Joseph 2d 67 

Eose, Capt. Alexander 52, 53, 61 

Severance, Ensign Moses 75 

Seymour, Lieut.-Col. Thomas 63 

Seymour, Capt. Tnomas Young 63 

Shoemaker, Charles 70 

Sibley, Col. Timothy 62, 64 

Speed, Lieut. James 60 



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ANCESTOR. PAGE 

Stanwood, Winthrop 69 

Starr, Capt. Thomas 53, 54, 59, 60 

Tenney, Jesse 58 

Thwing, Sergt. John 77 

Thwing, Corp. Nicholas 77 

Vaughan, Dr. Claiborne 65 

Wentworth, Hunking 72, 73 

Wesson, Ephraim 54, 59 

Whitney, Lieut. Jesse 58, 59, 62, 69 

Wight, Joel 74 

Williams, Obed 79 

Williams, Lieut. Samuel 58, 65, 66, 78 

Wingate, Col. Joshua 63 



OFFICEES OF ALOHA CHAPTER, D. A. E. 
1911—1912. 



Mrs. Perley L. Hoene, 
Mrs. J. B. Atherton, 
Miss Agnes E. Judd, 
Mrs. S. H. Douglass, 
Miss A. M. Dow, 
Mrs. C. H. Dickey, 
Mrs. C. H. Atherton, 
Mrs. W. W. Hall, 



Eegent 

Vice-Regent 

Recording Secretary 

Corresponding Secretary 

Treasurer 

Registrar 

Historian 

Chaplain 



Mrs. 


W. D. Alexander 


Mrs. 


C. H. Atherton 


Mrs. 


J. B. Atherton 


Miss 


Kate M. Atherton 


Mrs. 


Frank Batchelor 


Mrs. 


H. P. Beckley 


Mrs. 


Alice M. Bradstreet 


Mrs. 


W. A. Bryan 


Mrs. 


D. H. Case 


Mrs. 


W. R. Castle 


Miss 


M. A. Chamberlain 


Mrs. 


W. A. Clarke 


Mrs. 


J. P. Cooke 


Mrs. 


S. M. Damon 


Mrs. 


C. H. Dickey 


Mrs. 


S. H. Douglass 


Miss Abbie M. Dow 


Mrs. 


A. Gartley 


Mrs. 


J. W. Girvin 


Miss 


Charlotte V. C. HaU 



NAMES OF MEMBERS. 

Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Miss 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Miss 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Miss 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Miss 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Miss 
Miss 



W. W. Hall 
Perley L. Home 
Agnes H. B. Judd 
Agnes E. Judd 
A. F. Knudsen 
Wm. Lambert 
Frances A. Lenimon 
A. Lewis, Jr. 
James Lyle 
A. S. Marsh 
Malcolm Macintyre 
A. M. Merrill 
W. L. Moore 
Harriet Needham 
A. W. Rice 
M. F. Scott 
W. O. Smith 
Harriet Waipa 
Isabelle Woods 



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